Fall/Winter 2014 Catalog

TAMARA ESKENAZI / VINE DELORIA JR. / WELDON KEES PHILIP LOPATE / DAN O’BRIEN / LOREN EISELEY / ELLIOT DORFF ROGER ANGELL / AMBROSE BIERCE / ERNIE PYLE / H. G. WELLS RICHARD WHITE / ANDRÉ BRETON / MICHEL FOUCAULT COLIN CALLOWAY / MICHAEL FISHBANE / NEIL WHITEHEAD ANNE F. HYDE / HAMLIN GARLAND / JAMES L. KUGEL / AVITAL RONELL J. M. G. LE CLÉZIO / JAMES F. BROOKS / SANDER L. GILMAN LADONNA HARRIS / BRAD HIRSCHFIELD / JAMES P. RONDA BRENDA CHILD / LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN / RUTH CALDERON JOHN G. NEIHARDT / JEFFREY SALKIN / ILAN STAVANS

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS FALL & WINTER 2014 MAURICE BLANCHOT / A. J. LIEBLING / ALAN GALLAY JÜRGEN HABERMAS / GARY E. MOULTON / JOEL SARTORE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS / MARY SHELLEY / FRANZ BOAS JULES VERNE / PETER J. POWELL / MERIWETHER LEWIS DAVID SILBER / PAUL A. JOHNSGARD / ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE WILLA CATHER / JACQUES DERRIDA / MICHAEL CARASIK IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN / ELLA DELORIA / BETTY FUSSELL WILLIAM CLARK / HERTA MÜLLER / MARGARET D. JACOBS DELPHINE RED SHIRT / MARI SANDOZ / BILL LITTLEFIELD JAMES A. RAWLEY / DELL HYMES / LUTHER STANDING BEAR TOM OSBORNE / RED SMITH / CHRISTOPHER BROWNING MARIE-LAURE RYAN / ROBERT UTLEY / TED KOOSER BUFFALO BILL CODY / WRIGHT MORRIS / JOHN LARDNER TILLIE OLSEN / RAYMOND DEMALLIE / MARC BRETTLER HENRY JAMES / FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE / WALLACE STEGNER

NAT I V E ST U D IE S / AD O P TO N & FOSTER IN G / WOR LD H ISTORY

New book from Bancroft Prize–winner On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to the Capobiancos without Brown’s consent. Although Brown regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Capobiancos, rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families.

In A Generation Removed, a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian children had been separated from their families.

A Generation Removed The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World margaret d. jacobs september 408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 16 images, 1 table $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5536-4 $30.95 canadian/£15.99 uk ebook available

Jacobs also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: These practices undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada.

Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, 2009) and

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–

2

1934 (Nebraska, 1999).

“Margaret Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that combines penetrating analysis with heartwrenching stories.”—David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 “Jacobs brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and transnational importance. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that provides salutary lessons for the future.”—Ann McGrath, coauthor of How to Write History that People want to Read

Praise for Margaret Jacobs’s Bancroft Prize–winning, White Mother to a Dark Race

“An important work. . . . Jacobs’s thoroughness, breadth of comparative research, and fresh analysis of the removal of Indigenous children have earned three awards for this book (2010 Bancroft Prize; 2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize; 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize).”—The American Historical Review “This study stands as an excellent model and should encourage further comparisons between federal Indian policy and other maternalist projects within the United States as well as intimate strategies in other colonial regimes.”—Western Historical Quarterly “A monumental comparative study.”—Studies in American Indian Literatures “A painstakingly researched and brilliantly written account of the key roles white women played in the removal policies of U.S. and Australian governments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . If you are ready to remove your blindfold, then this is a must-read!”—The Canadian Journal of Native Studies “Jacobs gives us a fascinating window into a range of white women reformers and their networks in both sites and shows the commonality of their attitudes toward Indigenous women.”—Pacific Quarterly Review

CONTENTS 2

Special Interest

44

New in Paperback

64

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

White Mother to a Dark Race

General Interest

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the

Distribution 70

Removal of Indigenous Children in the American

Recent & Recommended

71

Margaret D. Jacobs

Recent Award Winners

72

$30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3516-8

Journals 74

Engendered Encounters

Index and Subject Guide

West and Australia, 1880–1940

Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934 Margaret D. Jacobs $27.50s paperback • 978-0-8032-7609-3

78

1

M EM OI R / SU STAIN AB IL IT Y / G R EAT PLAIN S

Grass fed and free-range For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a little cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch.

Wild Idea is a book about how good food choices can influence federal policies and the integrity of our food system, and about the dignity and strength of a legendary American animal. It is also a book about people: the daughter coming to womanhood in a hard landscape, the friend and ranch hand who suffers great tragedy, the venture capitalist who sees hope and opportunity in a struggling buffalo business, and the husband and wife behind the ranch who struggle daily, wondering if what they are doing will ever be enough to make a difference. At its center, Wild Idea is about a family and the people and animals that surround them—all trying to

Wild Idea Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land Dan O’Brien September 248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5096-3 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK ebook available

build a healthy life in a big, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous land.

Dan O’Brien is the author of numerous novels and memoirs, including Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, winner of the Western Heritage Award for best nonfiction. His novels Stolen Horses, Equinox, The Indian Agent, and The Contract Surgeon are available from the University of Nebraska Press.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Wild Idea is a lyrical tribute to the idea of buffalo back on the

2

plains, the rewards and challenges of putting them there. But it is so much more. It’s about all the life on the prairie, on the hardscrabble ranches and in the small towns. With this book, Dan secures his place as our modern prairie muse.”—Tom Brokaw, NBC journalist and author also of interest Sustainable Compromises A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living Alan Boye $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6487-8 Buffalo Nation American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison Ken Zontek $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9922-1

“Dan O’Brien’s book strike me as a gentle but badly needed confrontation. . . . Figuring out how to realign the way we live with the health of the ecological systems that support us is the single most important challenge of the twenty-first century, and that makes O’Brien’s book an essential meditation.”

—Edward Norton, actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity

Excerpt from wild idea Years ago someone sent Jill and me a great cartoon. It was a sketch of a buffalo standing on an endless prairie, holding a cell phone to its ear. There was no indication who the buffalo was talking to, but I like to think that all of America was listening. “I love the convenience,” the buffalo was saying, “but the roaming charges are killing me.” It costs a lot of money for a buffalo to roam freely, but it may cost us even more to not have them roam freely. If you ever see a herd of a few hundred head moving peacefully under a wild, western sky, you will never be the same. Back during the very early days of buffalo on the Broken Heart Ranch, I would often make my way out to where I could see them grazing. I would sit and watch them moving on the land until I had enough soul-fuel to keep going. But nursing an appreciation for buffalo doesn’t pay the bills, let alone restoration like the planting of native grasses or the resting of pastures needed to regain land health.

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

© JREden/iStock/Thinkstock

3

A M ER I C A N H ISTO RY / W E STER N H ISTORY / EN ER GY / EN VIR ON MENTAL STUDI ES

Mushroom clouds and yellow suits Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War. Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism”

Downwind A People’s History of the Nuclear West Sarah Alisabeth Fox November 328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 illustrations, 3 maps $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5537-1 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Comprehensive and incisive, Downwind also adds heart and

4

soul to an epic story of resilience in the aftermath of reckless arrogance. Sarah Fox gives the history of the nuclear age back to the people who had it written in their bones. The testimony she captured is both shocking and inspiring.”—Chip Ward, also of interest The Great Range Wars Violence on the Grasslands Harry Sinclair Drago

author of Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West “In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to

$21.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-6563-9

be trusted more than the words of the government and the

On the Home Front

experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to

The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site,

protect national security.”—Doug Brugge, professor of public

Third Edition Michele Stenehjem Gerber $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5995-9

health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine

BI OG R A PH Y / N AT IV E ST U D I ES / AMER ICAN H ISTORY

From Little Bighorn to Hollywood The great Native American warriors and their resistance to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories are mostly unknown. This long-overdue biography of Dewey Beard (ca. 1862–1955), a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, chronicles a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the midtwentieth century.

Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as “old Dewey Beard,” a living relic of the “old West” for the tourists.

With a keen eye for detail and a true storyteller’s tal-

Song of Dewey Beard Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn Philip Burnham October 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 1 genealogy, 4 maps $26.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-6936-1 $33.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK ebook available

ent, Philip Burnham presents the man behind the legend of Dewey Beard and shows how the life of the last survivor of Little Bighorn provides a glimpse into the survival of Indigenous America.

Philip Burnham is an assistant professor of composition at George Mason University and a former reporter for Indian Country Today. He is the author of So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons and Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and the National Parks.

“An original, bracing, touching, surprising, and vigorously written book. Take note; this is something we have never seen

buffalo were gone. That’s where the story usually stops. Philip Burnham lets Dewey Beard tell us what happened next.”

—Tom Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse “The Song of Dewey Beard is a thoroughly researched, wellalso of interest The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge A Lakota Odyssey Joe Starita $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9294-9

written, and engaging book.”—Akim Reinhardt, author of Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

before: a serious, and sometimes funny, and often dramatic, and always interesting account of a Lakota life after the

5

A M ER I C A N H ISTO RY / C AL IFOR N IA

Centennial of the San Francisco World’s Fair When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate.

By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world’s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women, Asians and Asian Americans, and working-class labor unions, among others, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a

Empress San Francisco The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Abigail M. Markwyn

6

October 392 pp. • 6 x 9 • 54 photographs, 5 illustrations, 32 color plates $35.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4384-2 $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK ebook available

unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre—World War I America and the West.

Abigail M. Markwyn is an associate professor of history at Carroll University. She is the coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World’s Fairs.

“San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 was a signal event for imagining the Pacific Rim in the early years of the twentieth century. Markwyn’s wonderful book also makes clear that the fair was a defining moment for the political culture of San Francisco. Hers is a finely crafted analysis and a well-told story of a city-state in the making.”

—Robert Rydell, author of All the World’s a Fair and World of Fairs “Abigail Markwyn provides an important addition to the existing literature on world’s fairs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her major contribution is to explore the ways in which San Francisco’s ethnic, class, and gender groups developed their own counternarratives and, sometimes just by their presence, posed a challenge to the dominant views.”

—Robert W. Cherny, author of American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868–1900

Woman’s Party booth at the San Francisco exposition, spring 1915. Library of Congress.

Festival Hall. Souvenir Views of the PanamaPacific International Exposition.

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

7

A R T / P HOTO GR AP H Y / SO U THWEST & ME XICO

Vanishing beauty of Mexican cemeteries

En Recuerdo de The Dying Art of Mexican Cemeteries in the Southwest Bruce F. Jordan With essays by Martina Will de Chaparro and Tony Mares With an interview by Bryce Milligan October 168 pp. • 10 x 7 • 107 photographs $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4588-4 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK

From the back roads of New Mexico and out-of-the-way fields in southern Colorado to urban hinterlands in South Texas, photographer Bruce F. Jordan evokes the startling beauty and unique world of ethnic Mexican cemeteries in En Recuerdo de: The Dying Art of Mexican Cemeteries in the Southwest. These historic and often forgotten cities of the dead stand as testaments to the brilliance of Mexican artisans and craftsmen, the importance of kinship and community among ethnic Mexicans in the Southwest, and the perseverance of marginalized communities to honor and care for ancestors in death.

Jordan’s sympathetic storytelling evokes for readers the atmosphere of many of these cemeteries. His arresting photographs are accompanied by his lively captions describing the significance of Mexican funerary carving traditions and the relationship of ethnic Mexican memory to cemeteries, and by Bryce Milligan’s interview with the photographer. With essays by Martina Will de Chaparro and Tony Mares that place the cemeteries within the unique historical context of the American Southwest, En Recuerdo de illuminates these

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

myriad lost cities of the dead and the significance of death and dying in Mexican culture.

8

Bruce F. Jordan is a documentary photographer and a frequent guest speaker at photography workshops.

He is the author of Texas Trilogy: Life in a Small Texas Town and Early Texas Schools: A Photographic History.

His photographs have been featured in numerous exhibits including the New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music and the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, among others.

“Bruce Jordan’s photographic abilities are technically superb, but he is also emotionally linked to his subject.

Beyond the mere record, Jordan exhibits an eloquent vision that carries to one’s heart and soul!”—Lionel Delevingne, coauthor of Drylands, a Rural American Saga “A striking and provocative set of images of Mexican American funerary decorations. I find them powerful and engaging. . . . The written material nicely complements the photographs by suggesting different ways that readers might contextualize them. This is a distinctive and worthwhile book.”—Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place

also of interest Pioneer Cemeteries Sculpture Gardens of the Old West Annette Stott $36.95s hardcover • 978-0-8032-1608-2

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Photos courtesy of the author

9

A M ER I C AN H ISTO RY / PACIFIC N OR TH WEST / CAN ADA / B OR D ER LANDS

Whiskey diplomacy Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930.

Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values.

Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight not only

Bootleggers and Borders The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland

into the Canada-U.S. relationship but also into the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Stephen Moore

10

November 296 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 5 illustrations, 2 maps $40.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5491-6 $49.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK ebook available

Stephen Moore is an associate professor of history at Central Washington University.

“This is a sophisticated yet very readable analysis of CanadianAmerican relations. Well-grounded in the Borderlands literature, [Bootleggers and Borders] offers a nice balance of national histories intertwined with the importance of regional identities and cross-border ties in the Pacific Northwest.”—Robert Campbell, author of Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver’s Beer Parlours, 1925 “In the rapidly growing field of Canada-U.S. borderlands history, Moore has been, to date, the only scholar exploring the rich, fascinating, and completely unknown story of Prohibition and bootlegging in the Pacific Northwest.”—Sheila McManus, author of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Marking of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands

Captured liquor stills. Courtesy City of Vancouver Archives.

“That Leaky Apartment Above.” Literary Digest, October 6, 1923.

also of interest Policing the Great Plains 1875–1910 Andrew R. Graybill $24.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-6002-3 the Line Which Separates Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands Sheila McManus $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8308-4 The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel Edited by Sterling Evans $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1794-2

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier,

11

M I L I TA RY H ISTO RY / WO RL D WAR I

Devil boats The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons “Hun Devil Boats,” “Sea Thugs,” and “Baby Killers.” But at the conflict’s conclusion, the U.S. Navy acquired six U-boats to study and to serve as war souvenirs. Until their destruction under armistice terms in 1921, these six U-boats served as U.S. Navy ships, manned by American crews. The ships visited eighty American cities to promote the sale of victory bonds and to recruit sailors, allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to see up close the weapon that had so captured the public’s imagination.

In America’s U-Boats Chris Dubbs examines the legacy of submarine warfare in the American imagination. Combining nautical adventure, military history, and underwater archaeology, Dubbs shares the previously untold story of German submarines and their impact on American culture and reveals their legacy and Americans’ attitudes toward this new

America’s U-Boats Terror Trophies of World War I

Chris Dubbs is the director of grants at Gannon University in

Chris Dubbs

Erie, Pennsylvania. He has published five nonfiction books,

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

November 232 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 38 photographs, 1 appendix $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7166-1 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK ebook available

12

wonder weapon.

Studies in War, Society, and the Military series Peter Maslowski, David Graff, and Reina Pennington, series editors

including, with Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Nebraska, 2011).

“I couldn’t put this book down. America’s U-Boats is a fastmoving narrative, expertly crafted by a gifted writer, and it tells the story of an especially compelling forgotten chapter of the Great War and its aftermath.”—Steven Trout, author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 “Chris Dubbs addresses an overlooked area of World War I cultural history, American fascination with German submarines during and after the war when the United States used confiscated U-boats to sell war bonds. In this captivating book, Dubbs displays a keen sense of irony and compelling ability

also of interest World War I The American Soldier Experience Jennifer D. Keene $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3487-1

to tell a story.”—Celia M. Kingsbury, author of For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front

M I L I TA RY H ISTO RY / WO R L D WAR II

A deflated experiment Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After reaching the mainland, these fu-go, the Japanese hoped, would terrorize American citizens and ignite devastating forest fires across the western states, ultimately causing the United States to divert wartime resources to deal with the domestic crisis.

While the fu-go offensive proved to be a complete tactical failure, six Americans lost their lives when a discovered balloon exploded. Ross Coen provides a fascinating look into the obscure history of the fu-go campaign, from the Japanese schoolgirls who manufactured the balloons by hand to the generals in the U.S. War Department who developed defense procedures. The book delves into panic, propaganda, and media censorship in wartime. Fu-go is a compelling story of a little-known episode in our national history that unfolded

Fu-go The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America Ross Coen November 280 pp. • 6 x 9 • 29 photographs, 4 drawings, 3 maps, 1 table, 1 appendix $28.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4966-0 $35.95 Canadian/£18.99 UK ebook available

also of interest Unsung Heroes of World War II The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers Deanne Durrett With a new afterword by the author $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2456-8

Ross Coen is a historian who writes about the American West, Alaska, and the Arctic. He is the author of The Long View: Dispatches on Alaska History and Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil: The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage.

“A fascinating and little-known story.”—David Sears, author of Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea “Ross Coen has written an extremely well-researched and carefully documented book.”—Lee Juillerat, regional editor of the Klamath Falls (OR) Herald and News

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Studies in War, Society, and the Military series Peter Maslowski, David Graff, and Reina Pennington, series editors

virtually unseen.

13

M EM OI R / C RE AT IV E N O N F I CTION

Workbooks of a poet laureate Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.

Kooser, winner of the Pultizer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year.

Written by one of America’s most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

Ted Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former U.S. poet laureate, is Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including The Blizzard Voices (Nebraska, 2006) and Valentines

The Wheeling Year A Poet’s Field Book Ted Kooser September 96 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 $14.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4970-7 $18.50 Canadian/£9.99 UK ebook available

(Nebraska, 2008) and several books of prose, including The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, and Lights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time, all available in Bison Books editions.

Praise for Ted Kooser’s Local Wonders: “Kooser is a poet by nature, and his essays have the generous feel of a man who’s rolled up his sleeves, pen in hand, for a long time, choosing words as an act of beauty, and knowing the small things of the world are of great import.”—Bloomsbury

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

also of interest By ted kooser

14

The Poetry Home Repair Manual Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

Review “Quietly eloquent. . . . This is a heartfelt plainspoken book about

$13.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5978-2

slowing down and appreciating the world around you.”

Local Wonders

—Janet Maslin on CBS News Sunday Morning

Seasons in the Bohemian Alps $11.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7811-0 The Blizzard Voices $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5963-8 Lights on a Ground of Darkness

“Through his eyes we learn to see, then appreciate, the beauty and grace in everyday miracles, the comfort and sanctity in local wonders.”—Booklist

An Evocation of a Place and Time $10.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2642-5 Valentines Illustrated by Robert Hanna $14.95 cloth • 978-0-8032-1770-6

© Ron Chapple Stock/Thinkstock

Excerpts from The Wheeling Year I know from years of experience that keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart. . . . I’ve put together my own little field book, in which I’ve included sketches and landscape studies made out of words, and thrown in a few observations about life. Keeping the original for myself, of course, I now offer a copy to you.

God knows what kind of stray it might be, some working breed, I’d guess, a hot black tangle of hair and twigs and leaves like a shadow still stinking of whatever cast it, a dark thing that someone scraped from the floor of the woods and left in a heap in our garage: damp throw rug, roll of mud.

But whose brown eyes are these, peering so brightly out of the mystery, and whose pink tongue tip just touches the tips of my fingers? Oh, dog, oh, roaming thief of love, so joyfully I find you in your myriad disguises.

The most beautiful flowers of courage are not seen in the showy, loose petalled bouquets of our leaders, enormous gardenias perfuming whole banquet rooms. No, they are blossoms like this: a child-sized young woman with a homely face, alone on a seat on the city bus, eyelashes thick with mascara, lipstick smudged onto her small, determined mouth.

I give you this ingot of sunbeams, this bale of straw, dusty with earth, that rode all day on the back of a wagon, scattering chaff. Drunk on the late afternoon light, it sleeps like a horse while the moon creeps into the legs of its trousers. can lie down next to a straw bale any old time, as if it were a brother.

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

One can never relax in the presence of gold, so self-absorbed it is, but one

15

NAT UR AL H ISTO RY / E CO LO GY / N EB R ASKA

Observing the tallgrass prairie A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska’s woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands. Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie collects his musings on Nebraska’s natural history and the issues of conservation facing our future.

Johnsgard crafts essays featuring snow geese, owls, hummingbirds, and other creatures against the backdrop of Great Plains landscapes. He describes prairie chickens courting during predawn hours and the calls of sandhill cranes overhead; he evokes the magic of lying upon the prairie, hearing only the sounds of insects and the wind through the grasses.

From reflections following a visit to a Pawnee sacred site to meditations on the perils facing the state’s finite natural resources, Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie celebrates the gifts of a half century spent roaming Nebraska’s back roads, trails, and sometimes-forgotten places.

Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has received the National Conservation

Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie A Nebraska Year Paul A. Johnsgard December 192 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 10 illustrations, 1 appendix $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5337-7 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award, both sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and is the author of more than five dozen books on natural history, including The Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America’s Wetlands and Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie (both available in Bison Books editions).

Praise for Paul A. Johnsgard’s Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Many scientists and historians have written about the natural

16

history of the Great Plains, but few so compellingly as Paul Johnsgard.”—Annals of Iowa “Anyone with an interest in the ecology and history of the shortgrass prairie will become immersed in the pages of this engaging book.”—North Dakota History

Sandhill and Whooping Cranes

Prairie Dog Empire

Ancient Voices over America’s Wetlands

A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie

Paul A. Johnsgard

Paul A. Johnsgard

$12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3496-3

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5487-9

Drawings courtesy of Paul A. Johnsgard

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

also of interest

17

AG R I CULT U R AL E CO N O MIC S / SU STAIN AB ILITY / FOOD STU D IES

Authoritative analysis of food supply chains In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, and communities.

The structure of local food supply chains, however, may not always be capable of generating these perceived benefits.

Growing Local reports the findings from a coordinated series of case studies designed to develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how local food products reach consumers and how local food supply chains compare with mainstream supermarket supply chains. To better understand how local food reaches the point of sale, Growing Local uses case study methods to rigorously compare local and mainstream supply chains for five products in five metropolitan areas along multiple social, economic, and environmental dimensions, highlighting areas of growth and potential barriers. Growing

Growing Local Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains Edited by Robert P. King, Michael S. Hand, and

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Miguel I. Gómez

18

February 432 pp. • 6 x 9 • 27 tables, 30 figures $60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5485-5 $81.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK ebook available Our Sustainable Future series Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Flora, and Tom Lynch, series editors also of interest Remaking the North American Food System Strategies for Sustainability Edited by C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyson $29.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-2790-3 Crisis and Opportunity Sustainability in American Agriculture John E. Ikerd $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1142-1

Local provides a foundation for a better understanding of the characteristics of local food production and emphasizes the realities of operating local food supply chains.

Robert P. King is a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Michael S. Hand is a research economist with the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana. Miguel I. Gómez is Ruth and William Morgan Assistant Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

“The subject is highly important to the current and future development of the food industry, especially for local alternatives. . . . [Growing Local] makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary issues in the food system.”—Charles Francis, professor of agronomy and horticulture and the former director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture Systems at the University of Nebraska

FOOD S T U D IE S / P O L IT ICAL SCIEN CE / AMER ICAN H ISTORY

America’s food safety Bill of Rights One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century.

In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle to Congress’s passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal

In Food We Trust The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation Courtney I. P. Thomas November 296 pp. • 6 x 9 •2 tables, 1 figure, 2 appendixes $40.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5481-7 $49.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK ebook available At Table series

agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply.

Courtney I. P. Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. She is the author of International Political Economy: Navigating the Logic Streams, an Introduction.

“The problem is not that conventionally produced food is intrinsically unsafe. This is a myth that the local food movement has embraced and perpetuated, but it is not true. To the contrary, the industrial food system of the late twentieth and early twenty-first food safety procedures than its local counterpart.

For this reason, I do not assume that either system is necessarily better than the other. I do, however, think that all food producers should be held to the same food safety standards. . . . How those standards should be

also of interest

implemented and why we have gone a hundred years

Good Growing

without them is the subject of the story you are about

Why Organic Farming Works Leslie A. Duram $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6648-3

to read.”—from the Preface

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

centuries is often better equipped to implement

19

NAT I V E ST U D IE S / AME R IC A N HISTORY / ED U CATION

Double-edged sword At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see the Indian warriors they knew only from imagination. Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is an evocative work of creative nonfiction, weaving together history, oral traditions, and personal experience to tell the story of these Indian prisoners.

Resurrecting the voices and experiences of the prisoners who underwent a painful regimen of assimilation, Diane Glancy’s work is part history, part documentation of personal accounts, and a search for imaginative openings into the lives of the prisoners who left few of their own records other than carvings in their cellblocks and the famous ledger books. They learned English, mathematics, geography, civics, and penmanship with the knowledge that acquiring the same education as those in the U.S. government would be their

Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Diane Glancy

20

November 144 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 3 photographs, 9 illustrations $20.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4967-7 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

best tool for petitioning for freedom. Glancy reveals stories of survival and an intimate understanding of the Fort Marion prisoners’ predicament.

Diane Glancy is an emerita professor of English at Macalester College and is currently a professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. She is the author of numerous novels, including Claiming Breath (Nebraska, 1992), Designs of the Night Sky (Nebraska, 2002), and The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha.

“Diane Glancy inhabits a world of images that breathe life and voice for the voiceless men, women, and children. . . . No simple history lesson, this, as Glancy examines how language is both captor and savior, another means of imprisonment and also liberation.”—Gina Ochsner, author of The Necessary Grace to Fall “This book is mesmerizing and will stay with you for lifetimes.”

—Jackie Old Coyote, Apsaalooke Nation, former director of

also of interest

education and outreach at the Harvard Project on American

Claiming Breath

Indian Economic Development

Diane Glancy $13.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7066-4

M EM OI R / P SYC H O LO GY / M IDWEST

Return to Rocky Ford In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown’s decline.

Allmendinger’s family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions that remained unresolved until the end of the author’s visit, when his mother died suddenly, a family member committed suicide, and a secret diary was discovered.

The Melon Capital of the World is a remarkable blend of personal narrative, memoir, and Allmendinger’s interviews with people who knew his mother and her family. His story is a gritty but compassionate, and at times humorous, portrait of a family trying to survive in the rapidly disappearing rural American West.

Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University

The Melon Capital of the World

African American West (Nebraska, 2005) and other books. His

A Memoir

the Los Angeles Times.

of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Imagining the work on western writers and literature has been featured in

Blake Allmendinger February 152 pp. • 5 x 8 • 20 photographs $21.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5540-1 $27.50 Canadian/£13.99 UK ebook available

“The Melon Capital of the World is a very important book. . . .

Allmendinger’s voice is unique and profound, making an excellent read.”—Margaret Randall, author of More Than Things “This story provides a therapeutic framework for envisioning hope in dark moments as well as being very connectable, readable, and enjoyable. . . . It’s a fun and provocative ride.”

also of interest The Enders Hotel A Memoir Brandon R. Schrand $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1769-0

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

—Mark Spitzer, author of Season of the Gar

21

M EM OI R / N AT IV E ST U D IE S / AN THR OPOLOGY / ASIA / MU SIC

An outsider in Taiwan In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their indigenous heritage. Most members of the Open Circle Tribe belong to the Amis tribe, which is descended from Austronesian peoples that migrated from China thousands of years ago. As a “nonstate” people navigating the fraught politics of contemporary Taiwan, the Amis of the Open Circle Tribe exhibit, for Ezell, the best characteristics of life at the margins, striving to create art and to live autonomous, unorthodox lives.

In Dulan, Ezell joined song circles and was invited on an extended hunting expedition; he weathered typhoons, had love affairs, and lost close friends. In A Far Corner Ezell draws on these experiences to explore issues on a more global scale, including the multiethnic nature of modern society, the geopolitical relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China, and the impact of environmental degradation on in-

A Far Corner

digenous populations. The result is a beautifully crafted and

Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe

entirely unknown to Western readers.

Scott Ezell February 328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, 2 appendixes $27.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-6522-6 $27.95 Canadian/£14.99 UK ebook available

personal evocation of a sophisticated culture that is almost

Scott Ezell is a writer and artist living in California and Asia.

He is the author of Petroglyph Americana and the chapbook Hanoi Rhapsodies, and is the editor and coauthor of Songs from a Yahi Bow.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“This is a marvelous journey into the worlds of indigenous

22

peoples in the coastal, seaside mountains of Taiwan, pursuing their age-old habits in the backwaters of empires, Chinese and Japanese, old and modern. Ezell, a young American musician and poet, writes with fine story-telling skill.”—John Balaban, author of Remembering Heaven’s Face also of interest Beneath Blossom Rain Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World Kevin Grange $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3433-8 How to Cook a Tapir A Memoir of Belize Joan Fry $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4361-3

T R AV EL ME MO IR / AME R IC A N HISTORY / N ATION AL PAR KS

The search for Shenandoah’s dispossessed For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand families left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the residents off their land to create the park.

With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy.

Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private

Shenandoah

land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have

A Story of Conservation and Betrayal

without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed

Sue Eisenfeld

from their homes.

February 208 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3830-5 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

tant, and faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University

Sue Eisenfeld is a freelance writer, communications consulMA in Writing Program. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Gettysburg Review, and other publications. Her website is sueeisenfeld.com.

“Shenandoah is a beautifully written portrait of a history-haunted hikes through Shenandoah National Park.”—Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War “The juxtaposition of delight with the land and the haunting of Shenandoah’s history is beautifully written, giving us the feel of the park and the lure of knowing its past.”—Katrina M. Powell,

also of interest Searching for Tamsen Donner Gabrielle Burton $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3638-7

author of The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

landscape: wistful, wild, and enchanting, like the best of autumn

23

F I C T I ON / SH O RT STO R IE S / AFR O- LATIN O/A STU D IES

Tostones make no excuses Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.

The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; and a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles.

Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.

Now We Will Be Happy Amina Gautier September 128 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5539-5 $20.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK ebook available

Amina Gautier is a winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Southern Review.

“In these richly textured and at times heartbreaking stories, Amina Gautier forges the links between generations and across

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction series Kwame Dawes, series editor

24

oceans. She is a builder of bridges as she strives to find that middle ground between the two islands—Manhattan and Puerto Rico—that exert their tug on her characters and shape who they are and what they become.”—Mary Morris, author of Revenge “In these moving, dramatic stories about hunger and fullness, Amina Gautier explores what it means to strive and live in the

also of interest Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories Xhenet Aliu $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7183-8 Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories Katherine Vaz $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1790-4

margins of American hope. Her shrewd compassion brings together characters determined to be happy and shows the cost of happiness with vivid, rich intelligence.”—Erin McGraw, author of Better Food for a Better World.

P OET RY / ASIAN AME RICAN

Filipino fusion poetry P r a i r i e

S c h o o n e r

B o o k

P r i z e

i n

P o e t r y

In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cul-

R. A. V i l la n u e va

tures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them.

In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.

R. A. Villanueva was born in New Jersey and lives in Brooklyn. His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review. His writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he teaches at New York University.

Reliquaria

“The texture of R. A. Villanueva’s words stay in the mouth,

R. A. Villanueva

shards of what is sacred, still is sacred: linguistic memento

September 80 pp. • 6 x 9 $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9638-1 $22.50 Canadian/£11.99 UK ebook available

‘concertina wire,’ ‘wreathed in gauze,’ and ‘Nakalimutan mo na

Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry series Kwame Dawes, series editor

mori, if you will, that preserve and keep alive. Take your time with this glorious collection. Breathe in: ‘black eggs,’ ‘pomade,’ ako. You // have already forgotten me.’ I dare say you will not forget these remains that Villanueva has saved for us.”—Kimiko Hahn, author of Toxic Flora “These vivid and deeply lived poems question ‘every delicate gift we have thrown away.’ Villanueva searches the world for the divine and—gorgeous poem by poem—he finds it.”

—Idra Novey, author of Exit, Civilian

The Promise of Hope New and Selected Poems, 1964–2013 Kofi Awoonor Edited and with an introduction by Kofi Anyidoho

“R. A. Villanueva reminds us that poetry is a space haunted by history, so we try ‘to name ghosts, to face them, dark as they are.’ He musters an impressive courage to take up the task.

And we’re rewarded not just by Villanueva’s immense thrill for language but by his ability to fuse the body’s fact with the

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4989-9

body’s mystery. This is a terrific debut.”—Patrick Rosal, author

No sales in UK and Africa

of Boneshepherds

Madman at Kilifi Clifton Gachagua $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4962-2 No sales in UK and Africa

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

also of interest

25

BI OG R A PH ICAL F IC T IO N / L I TER ARY / FR EN CH

Lyrical rendering of the white recluse To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This “lady in white,” who shut herself away from the world and found solace alone with her words, has since her death been viewed primarily through the lens of her poetry, which afforded her beauty and hope amid the agony and loneliness of her life.

As a reclusive writer himself, contemporary French author Christian Bobin felt a kindred tie to the poetess, and his book The Lady in White honors Dickinson in the form of a brief, poetically imagined account of her life and the work that she gave the world. This fresh and personal interpretation of Dickinson’s life leaves one with an impression of knowing Dickinson both through her poetry, as recalled by Bobin, and as he senses the person she was through her work and the sparse facts we have about her life.

Christian Bobin is a writer from the small town of Le Creusot, France. More than forty of his works have been published, several of which have been translated into English. Bobin

The Lady in White Christian Bobin Translated by Alison Anderson December 90 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4565-5 $20.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK ebook available

won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1992 for his work Le Trèsbas (The Very Lowly). Alison Anderson is the translator of J. M. G. Le Clézio’s Mondo and Other Stories (Nebraska, 2011) and Onitsha (Nebraska, 1997) as well as two collections of lyric essays by Christian Bobin, A Little Party Dress and I Never Dared Hope for You. Praise for the original French edition: “A text of luminous, intuitive grace.”—Christine Ferniot,

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Lire Magazine

26

“There is a Bobin style, a way of approaching literature through the joy that words radiate, the light they hold within.”

—Guy Goffette, Le Monde “A portrait full of empathy that cares little for chronology and facts, since what really matters to the author is elsewhere. . . .

Bobin preserves Emily Dickinson’s fervor, her attentiveness to small things, to nothing, to simplicity. . . . This is a biography full also of interest Mondo and Other Stories J. M. G. Le Clézio Translated by Alison Anderson $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3000-2

of grace and vision.”—Gérard Pussey, Elle Magazine (France)

F I C T I ON / France / algeria

Echoes of the Algerian War “Where is your wound?” asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in “the Events” that people have tried not to talk about ever since: the Algerian War. Chronicling the lives of two cousins—Bernard and Rabut— both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting effects this event had on the men who were involved.

Through the fragments of their stories, we see the whole history of the war: its atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched—and France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that wounded men may even become the wound itself.

Laurent Mauvignier is the author of several novels in French and is the winner of four literary prizes, including the Prix

The Wound Laurent Mauvignier Translated by David Ball and Nicole Ball Foreword by nick flynn February 280 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3987-6 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

Wepler. David and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately as well as together, including Abdourahman A. Waberi’s In the United States of Africa (Nebraska, 2009).

“One of France’s most talented writers, Laurent Mauvignier always kept a low profile on the literary scene—until his stunning novel about the Algerian War became a runaway bestseller.”—France Today “[Mauvignier is] one of the major French writers today.”—Lire Magazine

recognize, a land and a people marked by a history in which memory and violence can seem indistinguishable. . . . David and Nicole Ball’s translation is as elegant as a flick-knife—a superb version of this viscerally important novel.”—Michael also of interest

Gorra, author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making

Cousin K

of an American Masterpiece

Yasmina Khadra Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith and Alyson Waters $15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3493-2

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

“The Wound gives us a France that few American readers will

27

M EM OI R / L IT E R ARY N O N F IC TION

Superheroes and Hemingway, and other literary mash-ups A collage-like mash-up of personal anecdote, popular culture, masculinity, sports, and parenting, Hemingway on a Bike takes readers through the many and varied twists and turns of the life and mind of its author, Eric Freeze. Delving into obsessions and experiences, Freeze’s essays display a keen intelligence with insights on topics as diverse as Mormonism and foosball, Angry Birds and professional wrestling, superheroes and free birthing, Ernest Hemingway and Star Trek.

“Carnecopia” mashes experiences fishing and snorkeling with an exhibit at Monaco’s oceanographic museum to comment on how human beings unwittingly enact harm on their environment. “Bolt” explores the author’s fascination with sprinting and shares moments in France and the Midwest, where the words “to bolt” sometimes have unforeseen consequences. “Supergirl” plays on the childhood fascination with superheroes juxtaposed with adulthood manifestations of gendered expectations.

By turns playful, poignant, celebratory, and searching, Hemingway on a Bike meanders through ruminations on a number of subjects, and these reflections combine to dissect

Hemingway on a Bike Eric Freeze October 152 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4975-2 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

identity, belonging, and migration in an age when borders and boundaries, whatever the type, are continually transgressed and traversed.

Eric Freeze is an associate professor of English at Wabash College. He is the author of Dominant Traits: Stories and has published essays, stories, and translations in a variety of periodicals including Boston Review, Harvard Review, and the Southern Review.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“A wry and piercing collection of adventures and misadventures

28

from a terrific essayist. A book both tart and gentle, which I savored from the first line to the last.”—Brian Doyle, author of Mink River and Leaping “A wonderful book of essays, wry and wise, in which Eric Freeze considers what it is to be a twenty-first-century literary man’s also of interest Between Panic and Desire Dinty W. Moore $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2982-2 Quotidiana Patrick Madden $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4924-0

man in all his house-remodeling, sweet-parenting, foosballplaying glory.”—Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets “Eric Freeze is the kind of thoughtful writer and parent who will help us save the world.”—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Once Upon a River and American Salvage

F I C T I ON / SH O RT STO R IE S / great plains

Stories from an award-winning writer In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships.

With insight, wry humor, and deep compassion, Joern renders a cast of recurring characters engaged in battles public and private, epic and mundane: a husband and wife find themselves the center of a local scandal; a widow yearns for companionship, but on her own terms; a father and son struggle with their broken relationship; a man longs for escape from a community’s limited view of love; a boy’s misguided attempt to protect his brother results in a senseless tragedy. In the town of Reach, where there is hope and hardship, connections may happen in surprising ways or lie achingly beyond grasp.

Pamela Carter Joern’s debut novel, The Floor of the Sky (Nebraska, 2006), was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and winner of the Alex Award and the Nebraska Book Award. Her most recent book is The Plain Sense of Things (Nebraska, 2008). Visit her website pamelacarterjoern.com.

In Reach

“In Reach is a Winesburg, Ohio for the contemporary Great Plains.

Pamela Carter Joern

. . . Filled with complicated human stories, it is a joy to read and

September 216 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5483-1 $23.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK ebook available Flyover Fiction series Ron Hansen, series editor

will stay with the reader for a long, long time.”—Dan O’Brien, author of A Wild Idea “In these glimpses of life as it is really lived, you will encounter your aunt Ella, your grandfather Leland, even the uncle no one mentions. . . . Searching for connections, you will find these folks in reach of your heart.”—Linda M. Hasselstrom, author of No Place Like Home and Dirt Song “In Reach is an elegant, pitch-perfect book. . . . Pamela Joern has writer capable of showing us the world through the passions, disappointments, secrets, losses, and small achievements of characters whose submerged lives are played out against the harsh beauty of the Nebraska plains. I loved this book.”

also of interest The Floor of the Sky Pamela Carter Joern $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7631-4 The Plain Sense of Things Pamela Carter Joern $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1619-8

—Ladette Randolph, author of Haven’s Wake

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

once again demonstrated that she’s the real thing, a masterful

29

WOR L D H ISTO RY / SPAC E F L IG HT

Racing to Sputnik Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.

Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs.

While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the

Rockets and Revolution A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight Michael G. Smith December 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 30 illustrations, 4 tables $34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5522-7 $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK ebook available

goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War. Michael G. Smith is an associate professor of history at Purdue University.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Whatever postmortems we might declare over the

30

collapse of the USSR, now that it is gone, one must be that it appreciated and fostered rocket science and cosmonautics with a singularity of commitment and a priority of achievement. The USSR may have had no also of interest The X-15 Rocket Plane Flying the First Wings into Space Michelle Evans $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2840-5 Wheels Stop The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011 Rick Houston $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3534-2

ultimate future. But it did have a sometimes rewarding, however troubled, past. Communism, it turns out, was far better suited to the initial conquest of space than was capitalism.”—from Rockets and Revolution

M EM OI R / T R AV E L / O U T D O OR ADVEN TU R E / SPOR TS

Trekking the ‘bare-end’ trail The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world’s most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were more memorable for what he encountered along the way than for the actual climbing. His real adventures involved peculiar people, strange foods, and tropical diseases, rather than pitons, ice axes, and carabiners. On the Matterhorn he met an English alpinist who reveled in naked selfies, he stumbled into a cockfight in a Balinese village, and on a volcano in Italy he was mistaken for a famous singer by an insistent fan.

The Naked Mountaineer offers mountain-themed travel stories with a wide-eyed view of the world, while presenting irreverent commentary on climbers and their peculiar sport.

These are rollicking tales, filled with the unexpected.

Steve Sieberson began his mountaineering career in the late 1970s in Washington State and eventually became a climb leader for one of the country’s premier outdoor organiza-

The Naked Mountaineer Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler

tions, the Mountaineers. He spent sixteen years as a member of Seattle Mountain Rescue, practiced international law in Seattle for twenty-five years, and is now a professor of law at

Steve Sieberson

Creighton University in Omaha. Lou Whittaker is the dean of

Foreword by Lou Whittaker

American mountaineering and the country's foremost profes-

October 248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4879-3 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

sional mountaineering guide.

“It is Sieberson’s unabashed enthusiasm for climbing that is exposed here, and his bare appraisal of it all is engagingly straightforward. The Naked Mountaineer guides us up mountains—including his beloved Matterhorn—and offers an insightful travelogue. The observations are fresh and yet at the end of a long day’s hike.”—Kyle Wagner, travel and fitness editor for the the Denver Post

also of interest Beneath Blossom Rain Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World Kevin Grange $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3433-8 Almost Somewhere Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail Suzanne Roberts $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4012-4

“From western Washington to Italy to Indonesia, this is a fun and delightful book. For anyone who has traveled or wished to travel to remote places, Steve Sieberson’s The Naked Mountaineer gives an entertaining and humorous account of his mountain adventures and the characters he met along the way.”

—Mike Mahanay, president of the Washington Alpine Club

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

familiar, as welcome as clean socks from a well-worn rucksack

31

S P OR T S / AME RICAN H ISTO RY / OU TD OOR ADVEN TU R E / TR AVEL

Caution: Man crossing country On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days.

Weston’s first epic walk across America transcended sport.

He was “everyman” in a stirring battle against the elements and exhaustion, tramping along at the pace of someone decades younger. Having long been America’s greatest pedestrian, he was attempting the most ambitious and physically taxing walk of his career. He walked most of the way alone when the car that he hired to follow him kept breaking down, and he often had to rest without adequate food or shelter.

That Weston made it is one of the truly great but forgotten sports feats of all time. Thanks in large part to his daily dispatches of his travails—from blizzards to intense heat, rutted roads, bad shoes, and illness—Weston’s trek became a wonder of the ages and attracted international headlines to the sport called “pedestrianism.”

Aided by long-buried archival information, colorful bio-

Walk of Ages Edward Payson Weston’s Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Jim Reisler

32

February 232 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 8 photographs $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-9014-3 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

graphical details, and Weston’s diary entries, Walk of Ages is more than a book about a man going for a walk. It is an epic tale of beating the odds and a penetrating look at a vanished time in America.

Jim Reisler is the author of eight baseball books, most notably Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend, and is the editor of Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball.

George Grantham Bain Collection, Print and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Footsteps © Image Source/Thinkstock

An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 Kevin J. Hayes $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4493-1 Making the American Body The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History Jonathan Black $27.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4370-5

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

also of interest

33

S P OR T S / B ASK E T B AL L / AMER ICAN H ISTORY

The Seventy-Sickers During the 1972–73 season the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy-Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to an as-yetunbroken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses.

Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers. Although the team was uniformly bad, there were still many memorable moments, and the lore surrounding the team is legendary. Once, when head coach Lou Rubin tried to substitute John Q. Trapp out of a game, Trapp refused and told Rubin to look behind the team’s bench, whereby one of Trapp’s friends supposedly opened his jacket to reveal a handgun. With only four wins at the All-Star break, Rubin was fired and replaced by player-coach Kevin Loughery.

In addition to chronicling the 76ers’ woes, Perfectly Awful also captures the drama, culture, and attitude of the NBA in

Perfectly Awful The Philadelphia 76ers’ Horrendous and Hilarious 1972–1973 Season Charley Rosen

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

October 176 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 table $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4862-5 $33.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK ebook available

34

an era when many white fans believed that the league had too many black players.

Charley Rosen is a contributor to HoopsHype.com (USA Today Sports) and is the author of more than a dozen sports books, including Crazy Basketball (Nebraska, 2011), Players and Pretenders (Nebraska, 2007), and two books cowritten with NBA coach Phil Jackson.

“In retrospect, and despite the wearisome frustration of losing so many games, most of the surviving members of that infamous outfit still take pride in the upbeat attitude they maintained, as well as their continuous efforts to play as hard as they could. No matter what the scoreboard said. No matter what incompetence and zaniness threatened to overwhelm them.” also of interest Crazy basketball A Life In and Out of Bounds Charley Rosen $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1793-5

—from Perfectly Awful

S P OR T S / H O C K E Y

Icing the North Stars In 1967 the National Hockey League decided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, with its rich hockey history, was a natural choice for a new franchise. Thus the Minnesota North Stars were born.

Frozen in Time examines the organization’s signature seasons, from the late 1970s, when the club was at its worst, to its two surprising runs to the Stanley Cup Finals. The book recalls the exploits of characters such as Wren Blair, the firebrand ex-scout who would become the team’s first coach and general manager, and owner Norm Green, the man who moved the team to Texas in 1993, making him one of the most hated men in Minnesota. Here, too, is the tragic story of Bill Masterton, an original North Star whose death in 1968 as the result of an on-ice injury remains the only one in the history of the league. The team’s engaging history is brought to life with vivid recollections from former players and legends, including Cesare Maniago, Tom Reid, and Bobby Smith, and

Frozen in Time A Minnesota North Stars History Adam Raider December 296 pp. • 7 x 10 • 67 photographs $28.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4998-1 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

from journalists, broadcasters, front office executives, and faithful fans.

Also including season-by-season summaries, player profiles, and statistics, Frozen in Time offers an authoritative and nostalgic look at Minnesota’s still-beloved North Stars and a bygone era of pro hockey.

Adam Raider covered the NHL for more than a decade for magazines including The Hockey News and Hockey Digest. He is the coauthor of 100 Ranger Greats: Superstars, Unsung Heroes and Colorful Characters.

“Expertly researched and wonderfully written, Adam Raider has captured the excitement of the game in his chronicle of every page of this excellent hockey history lesson.”—Kevin Shea, author of Barilko: Without a Trace

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

the Minnesota North Stars, Frozen in Time. I very much enjoyed

35

S P OR T S / B ASE B AL L / AU TOB IOG R APHY

Behind the bow tie In Winning in Both Leagues J. Frank Cashen looks back over

J. Frank Cashen foreword by

billy beane

his twenty-five-year career in baseball. Best known as the general manager of the New York Mets during their remaking and rise to glory in the 1980s, Cashen fills the pages with lively stories from his baseball tenure during the last half of the twentieth century. His career included a stint with the Baltimore Orioles of the late ’60s and ’70s, working with manager Earl Weaver and the great teams of the early ’70s, including such players as Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, and Brooks

Winning

Jr. to bring the Mets to the pinnacle of Major League Base-

Reflections fRom baseball’s fRont office

behind victory over the Boston Red Sox leading to the World

in Both Leagues

Robinson. Later, tapped by Mets owner Nelson Doubleday ball, Cashen, with the rise of superstars Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, led the Mets to the thrilling come-fromSeries championship in 1986.

Winning in Both Leagues also chronicles the drafting of Billy Beane, who would later be the focus of the New York Times bestseller Moneyball. Cashen, who was a central figure in the fierce competition with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, excelled at building winning ball clubs and re-

Winning in Both Leagues

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Reflections from Baseball’s Front Office

36

mains one of only two general managers ever to win a World Series in both leagues.

J. Frank Cashen was, at various times, executive vice president, chief operating officer, and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in the ’60s and ’70s and the New York Mets

J. Frank Cashen

from 1980 to 1991. His teams won three world champion-

Foreword by Billy Beane

ships in five World Series appearances and were runners up in

September 240 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 35 photographs $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4965-3 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK ebook available

three other league championship playoffs. Billy Beane is the vice president and general manager of the Oakland Athletics.

“The most versatile man I know; sports, music, writing, the law, he could do it all.”—Tim McCarver “When it came to baseball, Cashen had the magic touch.”

—Nelson Doubleday Jr., former president of Doubleday and former owner of the New York Mets “Frank Cashen liked being a sportswriter, liked being a lawyer, liked running a brewery, but loved being a baseball general manager. He took his intellect, people skills, great judgment, and passion and became one of the best baseball GMs ever.”

—Jim Palmer, broadcaster and Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame pitcher

also of interest Called Out but Safe A Baseball Umpire’s Journey Al Clark with Dan Schlossberg $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4688-1

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Photos courtesy of the New York Mets

37

S P OR T S / FO OT B AL L / AME RICAN H ISTORY

When they played for pride The Game before the Money recounts the National Football League’s story and the evolution of America’s most popular sport in the vivid words of men who built the NFL. This unprecedented look at football history from the players’ perspective combines the stories of icons such as Frank Gifford and Bart Starr with those of journeymen who shared the huddle with Johnny Unitas and rallied to halftime speeches from legendary coaches Vince Lombardi and George Halas.

Featuring players from the 1930s through the 1970s, these personal accounts trace professional football in its journey from post-barnstorming days through the first two decades of the Super Bowl.

The Game before the Money offers backstories to classic games and the men who made history in them before multimillion dollar contracts. Insights into life in the NFL come from those most capable of providing it, NFL legends themselves. Forty former players open windows onto their own lives, their triumphs and tragedies and the hardship and the glory that make them the people they are both on and off the field.

The Game before the Money Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Jackson Michael

38

September 344 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 12 photographs, 1 table $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5573-9 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

Jackson Michael is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and the Maxwell Football Club. He is a freelance writer and journalist.

“The NFL is loaded with vibrant and original stories written by a cast of characters known as NFL veterans. Original and far more interesting than fiction, these stories need no garnishment Jackson Michael humbly asks, listens, and writes. His stated goal of delivering NFL history directly from the mouths of the men who made it is achieved with all the flair of a simple dive play that busts open for a forty-yard touchdown.”—Doug English, NFL All-Pro Defensive Tackle

Photos courtesy of Jackson Michael

The National Forgotten League Entertaining Stories and Observations from Pro Football’s First Fifty Years Dan Daly $26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4343-9

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

also of interest

39

S P OR T S / B IO GRAP H Y / FO OTB ALL

Man behind Monday night madness Rozelle chronicles the life and times of the architect of the modern National Football League, Pete Rozelle, who transformed football into arguably the most successful sports league in the world. While he was never considered a serious candidate for the job of NFL commissioner early on, the position ultimately catapulted Rozelle into the role through which he transformed the NFL and became a trailblazer for all sports in the second half of the twentieth century. When he became commissioner in 1960, the league had twelve teams playing to half-empty stadiums and was mired in an outdated business model. Rozelle introduced revenue and television profit sharing to guarantee the success of smallmarket teams and brought every NFL game to national television.

Rozelle’s monumental achievements include the introduction of the Super Bowl in the ’60s followed by the NFL’s most rapid expansion and the establishment of Monday Night Football. The ’80s saw Rozelle presiding over drug scandals, labor struggles, and the league’s legal battles with team owners

Rozelle A Biography Jerry Izenberg Foreword by David J. Stern

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

October 312 pp. • 6 x 9 $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5574-6 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

40

such as Oakland’s Al Davis, who famously won a lawsuit to move his Raiders to Los Angeles.

Jerry Izenberg chronicles the iconic life of Rozelle, who revolutionized the culture of sports in America and is responsible for turning the NFL into the preeminent sports league in the world.

Jerry Izenberg is a sports columnist emeritus for the Newark Star-Ledger and is the author of several books, including Through My Eyes: A Sports Writer’s 58-Year Journey. He won the Red Smith Award from the Associated Press Sports Editors and was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 2000. David J. Stern is a former commissioner of the National Basketball Association.

“With the benefit of research and reflection, Izenberg’s assessment of Rozelle and key League personalities is as hardhitting as one might expect. . . . . [Izenberg’s views are] briskly rendered, sometimes humorous, and never ambiguous.”—Paul Tagliabue, former NFL Commissioner “Read Rozelle: A Biography, and you’ll know not only why the NFL got gargantuan, but why Rozelle is the single biggest reason why it got so big.”—Peter King, senior writer for Sports Illustrated

also of interest Rooney A Sporting Life Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3767-4

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Courtesy of Anne Marie Rozelle Bratton

41

R EL I G I ON / J E W ISH ST U D IES / LITER ARY COLLECTION S

Jewish meaning in the Western world Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the con-

David Ellenson

J Ewish ME a n in g in a w o r l D of Cho i CE Studies in Tradition and Modernity

sistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime.

These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state.

The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a chang-

Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice Studies in Tradition and Modernity David Ellenson

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

October 376 pp. • 6 x 9 $45.00s hardcover • 978-0-8276-1214-3 $51.50 Canadian/£34.00 UK ebook available

42

JPS Scholar of Distinction Book series

ing world.

Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.

David Ellenson is chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. His book After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity won the National Jewish Book Council’s Award as the outstanding book in Jewish Thought in 2005. His most recent book, coauthored with Daniel Gordis, is Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa. “[David Ellenson] searches not to hide or homogenize complexity but rather to study it, celebrate it, and enable it to challenge our preconceptions. This book is critical for all who want to know not only the foundations and struggles of modern Jewish life but, more important, the future direction it

also of interest Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism Tikva Frymer-Kensky $30.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0798-9 Studies in Biblical Interpretation Nahum M. Sarna $55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0689-0

can take.”—Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute “Each essay sparkles like a gem, with compelling grace and power.”—Deborah Dash Moore, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

R EL I G I ON / B IB L E ST U D IE S / JE WISH STU D IES / WOMEN ’S STU D IE S

Revealing her story The Lost Matriarch offers a unique response to the sparse and puzzling biblical treatment of the matriarch Leah. Although Leah is a major figure in the book of Genesis, the biblical text allows her only a single word of physical description and two lines of direct dialogue. The Bible tells us little about the effects of her lifelong struggles in an apparently loveless marriage to Jacob, the husband she shares with three other wives, including her beautiful younger sister, Rachel. Fortunately, two thousand years of traditional and modern commentators have produced many fascinating interpretations (midrash) that reveal the far richer story of Leah hidden within the text.

Through Jerry Rabow’s weaving of biblical text and midrash, readers learn the lessons of the remarkable Leah, who triumphed over adversity and hardship by living a life of moral heroism. The Lost Matriarch reveals Leah’s full story and invites readers into the delightful, provocative world of creative rabbinic and literary commentary. By experiencing these midrashic insights and techniques for reading “between the lines,” readers are introduced to what for many will be an exciting new method of personal Bible interpretation.

The Lost Matriarch Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash

Jerry Rabow is the author of A Guide to Jewish Mourning and Condolence and 50 Jewish Messiahs.

Jerry Rabow September 256 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 genealogy $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-1207-5 $27.95 Canadian/£16.99 UK ebook available

“With imaginative insight, Jerry Rabow has placed a human face and heart onto the persona of this biblical drama of love, loyalty, and intrigue. The author endows this ancient romance with empathic contemporary relevance.”—Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, author of Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey and founder of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and the Jewish World Watch

a bride for one night Talmud Tales Ruth Calderon $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-1209-9 Biblical Women Unbound Counter-Tales Norma Rosen $20.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0714-9

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

also of interest

43

NAT I V E ST U D IE S / L IT E RARY COLLECTION S

Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag.

Through literary collaboration and recovery, Siobhan Senier and Native tribal historians and scholars have crafted a unique volume covering a variety of genres and historical periods. From the earliest petroglyphs and petitions to contemporary stories and hip-hop poetry, this volume highlights the diversity and strength of New England Native literary traditions. Dawnland Voices introduces readers to the compelling and unique literary heritage in New England, banishing the misconception that “real” Indians and their traditions vanished from that region centuries ago.

Siobhan Senier is an associate professor of English and the James H. and Claire Short Hayes Professor in the Humani-

Dawnland Voices An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England Edited by Siobhan Senier September 664 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 drawing $35.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4686-7 $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK ebook available

ties at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard and editor of the website Writing of Indigenous New England.

“Anyone with any interest in American Indian literature or indigenous literature of any kind will treasure this innovative book. Siobhan Senier and her learned contributors show us a New England and an America that have been here all along without most Americans suspecting it.”—Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Dawnland Voices is a collection of writing that is as bright as

44

the morning sun. It’s an amazingly comprehensive collection of the literary work of dozens of indigenous authors from an often overlooked part of Native America, the long-embattled Northeast. . . . The reading public needs to be awakened to the continued existence and the cultural heritage of our peoples, as well as the literary excellence of our many authors. No book that I know of does a better job of that than this brilliantly edited anthology.”—Joseph Bruchac, author of Our Stories Remember

From the editor’s introduction to Dawnland Voices The myth of the “vanishing Indian” is very old, and by no means peculiar to New England: it has permeated American culture from The Last of the Mohicans to Dances with Wolves. But the myth exercises special force east of the Mississippi, where colonization happened earliest; and it takes a particular shape in New England, where European settlers have, from the beginning, been keen to install themselves as the “first” Americans. Yankees like to believe that Native people “died off” (or “lost”) early on and that those who didn’t die were “assimilated” or have “very little real Indian blood.” Few citizens are educated about the barrage of state and federal policies that have been consistently enacted and retooled, to this very day, to terminate Native communities in New England as well as across the rest of the United States. . . .

The writers in Dawnland Voices describe and challenge those policies in their own writings, appropriately enough, because writing has always been a key colonial tool. . . .

Dawnland Voices thus joins an ongoing effort to help document and represent Native people’s continuous presence in New England. As you will see throughout this anthology, indigenous New Englanders have had to say

© John Doornkamp/Valueline/Thinkstock

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

it again and again: “We’re still here.”

45

L I T ER A RY C RIT IC ISM / E T H NIC STU D IES

The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents’ national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of “American” beliefs and identity. The faulty premise that homogeneity—as the symbol of the “melting pot”—was the mark of a strong nation underlined nativist beliefs while undercutting the rich diversity of cultures and lifeways of the population. Though many authors of the time have been viewed through this nativist lens, several texts do indeed contain an array of pluralist themes of society and culture that contradict nativist orientations.

In The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature, Julianne Newmark brings urban northeastern, western, southwestern, and Native American literature into debates about pluralism and national belonging and thereby uncovers new concepts of American identity based on sociohistorical environments. Newmark explores themes of plurality and place as a reaction to nativism in the writings of Louis Adamic, Konrad Bercovici, Abraham Cahan, Willa

The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature Julianne Newmark January 192 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 6 maps (cr) $60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5479-4 $81.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK ebook available

Cather, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles Alexander Eastman, James Weldon Johnson, D. H. Lawrence, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Zitkala-Ša, among others.

This exploration of the connection between concepts of place and pluralist communities reveals how mutual experiences of place can offer more-constructive forms of community than just discussions of nationalism, belonging, and borders.

Julianne Newmark is an associate professor of English at New Mexico Tech.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

“Julianne Newmark leads us back in time to multiethnic

46

authors who thought deeply and creatively about some of the seemingly intractable racialized rhetorics that still bedevil us today. This is a timely, beautiful, and ultimately hopeful book, one that has much to say about larger public conversations surrounding American identity, how we read the past, and how we build coalitions across racial and ethnic lines.”—Siobhan Senier, author of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England

NAT I V E S T U D IE S / L IT E R AT UR E

Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is a stunning collection that provides a glimpse into the intricacies and beauties of story and myth, placing them in their cultural, historical, and linguistic contexts.

Each of the twenty-five selections is translated and introduced by a well-known expert on Native oral literatures and offers entry into the cultures and traditions of several different tribes and bands, including the Yupiit and the Tlingits of the polar North; the Coast Salish and the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest; the Navajos, the Pimas, and the Yaquis of the Southwest; the Lakota Sioux and the Plains Crees of the Great Plains; the Ojibwes of the Great Lakes; the Naskapis and the Eastern Crees of the Hudson Bay area in Canada; and the Munsees of the Northeast. Sky Loom takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through literary traditions older than the “discovery” of the New World.

Sky Loom Native American Myth, Story, and Song Edited and with an introduction

Brian Swann is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the author and editor of many books, including Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Nebraska,

by Brian Swann

2004), Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the

November 608 pp. • 6 x 9 $40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4615-7 $49.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK ebook available

Algonquian Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2005),

Native Literatures of the Americas series Brian Swann, series editor

literatures:

and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America.

Praise for some of Brian Swann’s books on Native American

“Splendid. . . . Blending deep respect with critical acumen.”

—Chicago Tribune

—Library Journal “Would that all collections of Native American myths were this fine. . . . Highly recommended. All readers, all levels.”—Choice also of interest algonquian spirit Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America Edited by Brian Swann $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9338-0

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

“A rich compilation. . . . Educational and enlightening”

47

NAT I V E ST U D IE S / AN T H RO POLOGY / H ISTORY

This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can “be” indigenous in public spaces.

Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases “indigeneity” excludes some of the voices or identities

Performing Indigeneity Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences Edited by Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny

that the category purports to represent.

Laura R. Graham is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is a filmmaker and author of Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil. H. Glenn Penny is an associate professor of modern European history at the University

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

of Iowa. His most recent book is Kindred by Choice: Germans December 464 pp. • 6 x 9 • 40 photographs, 11 illustrations, and American Indians since 1800.

1 map, 1 table $35.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-5686-6 “Performing Indigeneity lays out a sophisticated treatment of the $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK cross-cultural politics embodied in the productive but hard-to$80.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7195-1 $100.00 Canadian/£52.00 UK define category ‘indigeneity.’ Laura Graham and Glenn Penny’s ebook available ground-breaking collection brilliantly guides readers through

48

the emergence and renegotiation of such tropes as cultural heritage, human rights, environment, and aboriginality.”

—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan and author of Indians in Unexpected Places “This terrific set of essays brings together some of the best and freshest thinking in a field burgeoning with creativity. . . . Every chapter offers surprises: gems of insight from unexpected angles. This is a bold step forward.”—Beth A. Conklin, chair of the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

H I S TORY / AME R IC AN ST U D I ES / R ELIG ION

In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America.

Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and others from separating people from their natural faith, Catholicism. Though domestic evangelization was its founding purpose, the Extension Society eventually expanded beyond the national border into Mexico in an attempt to solidify a hemispheric Catholic identity.

Exploring international, racial, and religious implications, Anne M. Martínez’s Catholic Borderlands examines Kelley’s life and actions, including events at the beginning of the twentieth century that prompted four exiled Mexican archbishops to seek refuge with the Archdiocese of Chicago and befriend Kelley. This relationship inspired Kelley to solidify a commitment to expanding Catholicism in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in response to the national plan of Protestantization, which was indiscreetly being labeled as

Catholic Borderlands Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905–1935 Anne M. Martínez October 352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 24 photographs, 2 drawings $70.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4877-9 $87.50 Canadian/£46.00 UK ebook available

“Americanization.” Kelley’s cause intensified as the violence of the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Rebellion reverberated across national borders. Kelley’s work with the U.S. Catholic Church to intervene in Mexico helped transfer cultural ownership of Mexico from Spain to the United States, thus signaling that Catholics were considered not foreigners but heirs to the land of their Catholic forefathers.

Anne M. Martínez is in the Department of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. “[Anne M. Martínez’s] broad international approach sets Catholic Borderlands apart from previous studies and generates the book’s compelling analysis.”—Timothy Matovina, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church

[Father Francis C. Kelley’s] campaign for greater U.S. intervention in Mexican affairs, Anne Martínez is able to chart the success (and failure) of religion as a motivator in foreign policy while questioning the degree to which that religion transcends national boundaries and cultures. . . . Martínez spins a captivating and important tale.”—Terry Rugeley, author of Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatán, 1800–1880

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

“By documenting the many problems and contradictions of

49

NAT I V E S T U D IE S / AN T H RO POLOGY / LATIN AMER ICAN STU di ES

Fluent Selves Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America Edited by Suzanne Oakdale

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

and Magnus Course

50

Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples.

This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood.

The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology.

Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.

Suzanne Oakdale is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community (Nebraska, 2005). Magnus Course is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile.

November 352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 1 illustration, 2 maps, 1 table $75.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4990-5 $93.95 Canadian/£49.00 UK ebook available

ANTHROPOLOGY / AMERI C AN HI STORY / EUROPE

Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 8 Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts.

Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, luminaries such as Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Marshall Sahlins, and lesser-known but important anthropological work by Berthold Laufer, A. M. Hocart, Kenelm O. L. Burridge, and Robin Ridington, among others.

These essays examine myriad themes such as the pedagogical context of the anthropologist as a teller of stories about indigenous storytellers; the colonial context of British anthropological theory and its projects outside the nation-state; the legacies of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism regarding culture-specific patterns; cognitive universals reflected in empirical examples of kinship, myth, language, classificatory systems, and supposed universal mental structures; and the career of Marshall Sahlins.

Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001). Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the Curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).

November 296 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 1 illustration $40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-5336-0 $49.95 Canadian/£26.99 UK ebook available Histories of Anthropology Annual series

NAT I V E ST U D IE S / AN T H R O POLOGY / LATIN AMER ICAN STU D IES

The rich storytelling traditions of the Ashéninka Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women’s autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches.

The Ashéninkas are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Ashéninka oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community.

Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Ashéninka oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by a specialist in Ashéninka language varieties, Elena Mihas, and grounded in the actual performances of Ashéninka speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for

Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual Elena Mihas

the first time. Each original text in Ashéninka is accompanied by an English translation and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. The result is a masterful, authoritative, yet entertaining and provocative collection of oral literature that vividly testifies to the power of Ashéninka storytelling.

With Gregorio Santos Pérez

Elena Mihas is a postdoctoral associate in anthropological

and Delia Rosas Rodríguez

linguistics at James Cook University in Australia.

December 416 pp. • 6 x 9 • 27 photos, 17 illustrations, 3 maps $65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4537-2 $81.50 Canadian/£42.00 UK ebook available

“Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual demonstrates a sophisticated and interesting use of discourse-centered approaches to culture and serves as a model for contemporary scholarship that integrates linguistic and sociocultural anthropology. From an ethnohistorical perspective, this work is especially valuable because it among the various indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon region.”—Jonathan Hill, author of Made-from-Bone:

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Trickster Myths, Music, and History in an Amazonian Community

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

demonstrates how much cultural variability exists within and

51

A M ER I C AN H ISTO RY / W E STER N H ISTORY / N EB R ASKA

History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating the results of years of scholarship and research, this edition gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state’s women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state’s dramatic changes in the past two decades.

Ronald C. Naugle is professor emeritus of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University. The author and editor of numerous books, he is coeditor of Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Nebraska.

John J. Montag is professor emeritus of library and informa-

History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag, and James C. Olson January 576 pp. • 6 x 9 • 43 photographs, 5 illustrations, 5 maps, 6 tables, 2 appendixes $35.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-8626-9 $49.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK ebook available

tion technology at Nebraska Wesleyan University. James C. Olson (1917–2005) was president emeritus of the University of Missouri. He is the author of several books, including Stuart Symington: A Life.

Praise for the first edition: “[A] balanced, richly-researched account written with boldness and a certain wryness of wit that matches the subject. This is good history.”—New York Times Book Review “Splendid. . . . A clear and forceful exposition. . . . Here is a book that demands reading by thoughtful Nebraskans.”—Omaha

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

World-Herald

52

also of interest Nebraska Under a Big Red Sky Joel Sartore $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5970-6 Nebraska Moments, New Edition Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, and John R. Wunder $23.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6039-9

L I T ER A RY C RIT IC ISM / AME RICAN WEST

Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.

Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of the “American West” in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800s, Before the West Was West explores the concrete, meaningful connections between different texts as well as the development of national ideologies and mythologies. Examining pre-nineteenth-century writings that do not fit conceptions of the Wild West or of cowboys, cattle ranching, and the Pony Express, these thirteen essays demonstrate that no single, unified idea or geography defines the American West.

Contributors investigate texts ranging from the Norse Vinland Sagas and Mary Rowlandson’s famous captivity narrative to early Spanish and French exploration narratives, an eighteenth-century English novel, and a play by Aphra Behn.

Through its examination of the disparate and multifaceted

Before the West Was West Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers

body of literature that arises from a broad array of cultural backgrounds and influences, Before the West Was West apprehends the literary West in temporal as well as spatial and cultural terms and poses new questions about “westernness” and its literary representation.

Edited and with an introduction

Amy T. Hamilton is an associate professor of English at North-

by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J.

ern Michigan University. Tom J. Hillard is an associate profes-

Hillard Foreword by Michael P. Branch

“Taken as a whole, the insights into the ‘when’ of the American West offered by this book are both timely and essential to our further understanding of how cultures developed in the contact zones of the northern parts of the western hemisphere.”

—Nicolas S. Witschi, author of Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

November 336 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-5685-9 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK $70.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5489-3 $87.50 Canadian/£46.00 UK ebook available

sor of English at Boise State University.

53

L AT I N A ME RICAN H ISTO RY / ME XICO / CH ILD R EN ’S STU D IES

LATI N AMERI C AN HI STORY / ME XI CO / GERMANY

Seen and Heard in Mexico

Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico

Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Elena Jackson AlbarrÁn

54

During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.

While most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in Seen and Heard in Mexico, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.

Elena Jackson Albarrán is an assistant professor in the history department and the Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies Program at Miami University.

January 504 pp. • 6 x 9 • 26 photographs, 31 illustrations $35.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6534-9 $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK $75.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6486-1 $93.95 Canadian/£49.00 UK ebook available The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor

The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze, 1912–1914 Edited and with an introduction by Friedrich E. Schuler Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in spring of 1911 to serve as Germany’s ambassador to a country in a state of revoFriedrich Schuler lution. Germany’s emperor MURDeR & CounterREvolution Wilhelm II had selected The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous years leading up to the First World War. The ambassador benefited from a network of informers throughout Mexico and was closely involved in the country’s political and diplomatic machinations as the violent revolution played out.

Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico presents Hintze’s eyewitness accounts of these turbulent years.

Hintze’s diary, telegrams, letters, and other records, translated, edited, and annotated by Friedrich E. Schuler, offer detailed insight into Victoriano Huerta’s overthrow and assassination of Francisco Madero and Huerta’s ensuing dictatorship and chronicle the U.S.supported resistance.

Showcasing the political relationship between Germany and Mexico, Hintze’s suspenseful, often daily diary entries provide new insight into the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution, including U.S. diplomatic maneuvers and subterfuge, as well as an intriguing backstory to the infamous 1917 Zimmermann Telegram, which precipitated U.S. entry into World War I. Friedrich E. Schuler is a professor of history and international relations at Portland State University. He is the author of Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934–1940 and Secret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842–1929.

in Mexico

, 1912–1914

January 344 pp. • 6 x 9 • 37 photographs $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4963-9 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor

H I S TORY / F R AN C E

Following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country’s population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing a policy of pronatalism to reverse these demographic trends. Though representing distinct political movements, colonial supporters and pronatalist organizations were born of the same crisis and reflected similar anxieties concerning France’s trajectory and position in the world.

Regeneration through Empire explores the intersection between colonial lobbyists and pronatalists in France’s Third Republic. Margaret Cook Andersen argues that as the pronatalist movement became more organized at the end of the nineteenth century, pronatalists increasingly understood their demographic crisis in terms that transcended the boundaries of the metropole and began to position the French

Regeneration through Empire

empire, specifically its colonial holdings in North Africa and

French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic

Regeneration through Empire is the first book to analyze the

Margaret Cook Andersen January 368 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 illustrations, 3 tables $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4497-9 $68.50 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available

Drawing on an array of primary sources from French archives, relationship between depopulation and imperialism.

Margaret Cook Andersen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

“Andersen convincingly demonstrates the integral ways in which pronatalism influenced France’s colonial strategizing and, correspondingly, how the demographics of empire influenced pronatalist plans. Original, fascinating, and well written.”

—Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and author of Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization series A. J. B. Johnston, James D. Le Sueur, and Tyler Stovall, series editors

Madagascar, as a key component in the nation’s regeneration.

55

A M ER I C A N H ISTO RY / MIL ITARY HISTORY / WOR LD WAR I / POLITI C AL SC I ENC E

World War I was a watershed in modern world history. On the battlefield, millions were slaughtered by chemical warfare, machine guns, and trench warfare—and this senseless bloodletting remains the most enduring legacy of the Great War. Critical to understanding the war’s significance is the often-overlooked emergence of a “modern” dynamic grassroots peace movement that both opposed war and sought to abolish its social causes.

Edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett, Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America presents primary documents, most anthologized for the first time, illustrating opposition and resistance to the war and the government’s efforts to promote the war and restrict dissent.

This fresh collection highlights the broad range of antiwar sentiment: religious and secular, liberal and radical, pacifist and nonpacifist, including conscientious objection. It also addresses key issues raised by the antiwar movement—particularly dissent in wartime, civil liberties, the meaning of patriotism, and citizen peace activism—that remain vital to

Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America A Documentary Reader Edited and with an introduction

by Scott H. Bennett and

understanding American democracy.

Scott H. Bennett is a professor of history at Georgian Court University. He is the author of Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915– 1963. Charles F. Howlett is an associate professor of education at Molloy College. He is the author of History of the American Peace Movement, 1890–2000: The Emergence of a New Scholarly Discipline.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Charles F. Howlett

56

October 376 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 illustrations $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4011-7 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

“[This is] an extremely important contribution . . . bringing together sources from both the radical and mainstream aspects of antiwar activism.”—Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics

BI OG R A PH Y / L IT E RARY

In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London’s work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London’s “Story of a Typhoon” to The People of the Abyss.

The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen.

London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely

Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893–1902 Jay Williams November 696 pp. • 6 x 9 $90.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4991-2 $112.50 Canadian/£59.00 UK ebook available

personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time.

Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.

Jay Williams is the senior managing editor of Critical Inquiry, as well as the editor of Signature Derrida and publisher/editor of seven numbers of the Jack London Journal.

“A paradigm-shifting approach to Jack London studies. . . .

Williams has the gift of explaining complex ideas in straightforward, clear language and is also a storyteller adept at tracing the human connections behind the texts and shaping them into an engrossing tale. Author Under Sail will become an

Novels: From Naturalism to Nature “A stunning new story of the authorial development that undergirds Jack London’s prolific fiction and nonfiction. . . .

For admirers of Jack London, for students of American literature, and for historians of the book, Author Under Sail is a must.”

—Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

indispensable source for all serious London scholars.”—Chris Gair, author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London’s

57

L I T ER A RY C RIT IC ISM / AGR I CU LTU R E / AMER ICAN HISTORY

Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production.

Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have debated the best way to produce food and wealth for an expanding population with imperialistic tendencies.

In a sweeping overview, Beyond the Fruited Plain traces the connections between nineteenth-century literature, agriculture, and U.S. territorial and economic expansion. Bringing together theories of globalization and ecocriticism, Kathryn Cornell Dolan offers new readings on the texts of such literary figures as Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Harriet Beecher Stowe as they examine conflicts of food, labor, class, race, gender, and time—issues still influencing U.S. food politics today. Beyond the Fruited Plain shows how these authors use their literature to imagine agricultural alternatives to national practices and in so doing prefigure twenty-first-century concerns about globalization, resource depletion, food security, and the relation of indus-

Beyond the Fruited Plain Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850–1905 Kathryn Cornell Dolan

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

December 248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4988-2 $81.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK ebook available

58

trial agriculture to pollution, disease, and climate change.

Kathryn Cornell Dolan is an assistant professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

“Beyond the Fruited Plain poses a terrifically useful expansion of our understanding of how food-related discourse in the period was incorporated by literary artists, as well as how those artists turned their craft to the purpose of advocating for alternatives.”—Nicolas S. Witschi, author of Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern

F I C T I ON / WO ME N ’ S ST U D IES / WESTER N LITER ATU R E

FI C TI ON / AMERI C AN HI STORY / WOMEN’S STUDI ES

Elder Northfield’s Home

A Law Unto Herself

or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar

Rebecca Harding Davis

A. Jennie Bartlett

Edited and with an introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe

Edited and with an introduction by Nicole Tonkovich

February 240 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 6 photos $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-7184-5 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers series Theresa Strouth Gaul, series editor

January 208 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3814-5 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers series Theresa Strouth Gaul, series editor

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield’s Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy’s victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman, Marion Wescott, who marries a Mormon elder, Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife, Marion attempts to flee during the night, toddler son in her arms, pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband, however, and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion, Henry, and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure.

Nicole Tonkovich’s critical introduction includes both historical contextualization and comments on selected primary documents, providing a broader look at the general public’s reception of the practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century.

A. Jennie Bartlett (1855–1930) was a late nineteenthcentury novelist and an advocate for antipolygamy legislation. Nicole Tonkovich is a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance (Nebraska, 2012) and other works.

A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenthcentury protagonist struggling to care for her elderly father with limited financial resources. In order to continue care, Jane seeks to secure her rightful inheritance despite the efforts of her cousin and later her husband, a greedy man who has tricked her father into securing her hand in marriage.

Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad general audience the need for legal reforms regarding divorce, mental illness, inheritance, and reforms to the Married Women’s Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change.

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) built a career spanning nearly half a century from her apprenticeship newspaper work for the Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer in the 1850s to her last published short story at the time of her death. She is best known for the publication of her novella Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) in the Atlantic Monthly. Alicia Mischa Renfroe is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

59

L I T ER A RY C RIT IC ISM / P H ILOSOPHY

The Event Literature and Theory Ilai Rowner

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences—moments of change and interruption—categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over this subject extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature’s approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events?

Ilai Rowner’s study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and T. S. Eliot.

Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature—as an act of both writing and reading—becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while yet revealing the creative energy within the work of literature.

Ilai Rowner is an adjunct lecturer of French and comparative literature at Tel Aviv University.

60

LI TERARY C RI TI C I SM / FRANC E / VI ETNAM

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature Leslie Barnes Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê.

In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences.

One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

Leslie Barnes is a lecturer in French studies at the Australian National University.

“Rowner’s book is a considerable ‘event.’ Written with great precision but also highly readable, this work offers “Barnes raises a crucial question at this juncture in an example of what contemporary interdisciplinary theory francophone literary research, a question whose can produce at its best; its accessibility should draw a implications for future research far exceed the sole considerable number of readers from different fields of bounds of French literature, although she poses it in that the human and social sciences.”—Julia Kristeva, author of domain: What impact did intercultural colonial contact Strangers to Ourselves have on the development of French culture?”—Jane Bradley Winston, author of Postcolonial Duras: Cultural January Memory in Postwar France 296 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4585-3 $62.50 Canadian/£33.00 UK ebook available

December 288 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $70.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4997-4 $87.50 Canadian/£46.00 UK ebook available

L I T ER A RY C RIT IC ISM / B RIT I SH H ISTORY / WOMEN ’S STU D IES

Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative restrictions of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested to in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. Examining the framing and performance of violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England.

Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers asserts the power of women’s language— the power to subvert binaries and destabilize social hierarchies, particularly those of gender, in the early modern era.

In the process Stavreva reconstructs the speech acts of indi-

Words Like Daggers Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England Kirilka Stavreva January 224 pp. • 6 x 9 $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5488-6 $68.50 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available Early Modern Cultural Studies series Carole Levin and Marguerite Tassi, series editors

vidual contentious women, such as the scold Janet Dalton, the witch Alice Samuel, and the Quaker Elizabeth Stirredge.

Because the dramatic potential of women’s powerful rhetorical performances was recognized not only by victims and witnesses of individual violent speech acts but also by theater professionals, Stavreva also focuses on how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance era, orchestrated and aestheticized women’s fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance.

Kirilka Stavreva is a professor of English at Cornell College.

“Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth I

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet,

61

L I T ER A RY CO L L E CT IO N S / L ITER ARY CR ITICISM

Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London.

In this volume of 114 letters, of which 58 are published for the first time, we see James learning to negotiate, pitting one publisher against another, and working to secure simultaneous publication in the United States and England. He establishes a working relationship with Frederick Macmillan and with the Macmillan publishing house, cultivates reviewers, basks in the success—and notoriety—of his novella Daisy Miller, and visits Alfred Tennyson and George Eliot, among others. James also produces essays on political subjects and continues to publish reviews and travel essays. Perhaps most important, James negotiates terms for and begins planning The Portrait of a Lady.

Henry James (1843–1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians,

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880 Volume 1 Henry James

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias With an introduction by Michael Anesko

62

October 384 pp. • 6 1/4 x 10 • 7 photographs, 1 painting $90.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5424-4 $112.50 Canadian/£59.00 UK The Complete Letters of Henry James series Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, series editors

The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999). Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and coeditor of Tracing Henry James.

Michael Anesko is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.

Praise for earlier volumes in the Complete Letters of Henry James series: “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language.

[James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific— correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)

J E W I S H ST U D IE S / E U R O P E / POLITICAL SCIEN CE

ANTHROPOLOGY / J E WI SH STUDI ES / MI DDLE EAST

The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial

Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel

R. Amy Elman

Edited and with an introduction by

February 176 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 tables, 1 chronology, 1 appendix $50.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-5541-8 $62.50 Canadian/£33.00 UK ebook available Studies in Antisemitism series Copublished with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, and Moshe Shokeid With an afterword by Alex Weingrod Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod’s groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel’s underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change.

Drawing from Weingrod’s perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions.

Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel’s complex ethnoscape.

Fran Markowitz is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at BenGurion University of the Negev in Israel. Stephen Sharot is a professor emeritus of sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Moshe Shokeid is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Tel Aviv University.

January 400 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps $65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7194-4 $81.50 Canadian/£42.00 UK ebook available Studies of Jews in Society series

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Copublished with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, this study asks if the European Union (EU) has the capacity or the will to counter antisemitism. The desire to counter antisemitism was a significant impetus toward the formation of the EU in the twentieth century, and now prejudice against Jews threatens to subvert that goal in the twenty-first. The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial offers an overview of the circumstances that obliged European political institutions to take action against antisemitism and considers the effectiveness of these interventions by considering two seemingly dissimilar EU states, Austria and Sweden.

This examination of the European Union’s strategy for countering antisemitism discloses escalating prejudice within the EU in the aftermath of 9/11. The author contends that Europe’s political actors have responded to the challenge and provocation of antisemitism with only sporadic rhetoric and inconsistent commitment, a halfhearted strategy for countering antisemitism that exacerbates skepticism toward EU institutions and their commitments to equality and justice. This exposition of the insipid character of the EU’s response simultaneously suggests alternatives that might mitigate the subtle and potentially devastating creep of antisemitism in Europe.

R. Amy Elman is the Weber Professor in Social Science at Kalamazoo College, Michigan. She is the author of Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe and Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States.

63

Ne w in pa per b a ck

F I C T I ON / W E ST E RN

Under the veil of one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to humankind, a king is born. Magnus King, the son of a well-born English woman, continues his family’s aristocratic legacy on the frontier of the American West until the night a deadly shooting changes everything.

Young Earl Ransom, a man found long ago on the Cheyenne prairie with no memory of his past or of how his destiny is linked to that of Magnus King, finds his way through a tale as old and tragic as the Greek myth of Oedipus. King of Spades is the final volume of Frederick Manfred’s acclaimed fivevolume series, The Buckskin Man Tales. For this Bison Books Classic edition, Joel Johnson provides a new introduction.

Frederick Manfred (1912–94) is the author of twenty-four novels, including the five-volume series The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Lord Grizzly (finalist for the 1954 National Book Award), Riders of Judgment, Conquering Horse, and Scarlet Plume, all available in Bison Books editions. Joel Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Augustana College.

a bison books classic

King of Spades, Second Edition Frederick Manfred Introduction by Joel Johnson

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

October 328 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4882-3 $27.95 Canadian/£14.99 UK

64

also of interest by frederick manfred Lord Grizzly, Second Edition $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3523-6 Riders of Judgment, Second Edition $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4881-6 Conquering Horse, Second Edition $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4524-2 Scarlet Plume, Second Edition $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4364-4

Ne w in pa per b a ck

BI OG R A PH Y / SP O R T S / FO OTB ALL

Hailing from suburban Los Angeles, raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. How Henley, in the space of three short years, went from golden NFL role model to federal inmate is one of the most bizarre stories in the annals of sport-starsturned-criminal.

The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, Intercepted takes us into Henley’s fourth season in the NFL, when he met Rams cheerleader Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan, a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. Henley, Donaho, and McGowan embark on a scheme to transport cocaine that lands Henley in federal prison, where he attempts to arrange a Mafia hit on the sentencing judge and Donaho, who had

Intercepted The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley Michael McKnight October 520 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 photographs, 1 map $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6292-8 $24.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK ebook available

been the star witness against Henley at his trial. Detailing how one of the best and brightest of our professional athletes destroyed himself through temptation, arrogance, and anger at a justice system that he felt had failed him, Intercepted is also a cautionary tale about American culture, as disturbing as it is impossible to ignore.

Michael McKnight is a writer-at-large for Sports Illustrated.

“This tormented tale of hubris and corruption, loaded with seedy characters, reads like a legal thriller. But McKnight’s thorough examination of former Los Angeles Rams cornerback Darryl Henley’s sordid fall from grace is a cautionary all-tooreal story of sex, drugs, and murder. . . . Sports Illustrated writer McKnight’s meticulous research and attention to detail nearly indicts the U.S. justice system and its own glaring flaws.”

—Publishers Weekly

Henley is sensational in the hands of Michael McKnight, a gifted storyteller who also happens to be one of America’s best investigative journalists.”—Austin Murphy, senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of The Sweet Season

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

“The twisted, tragic, stranger-than-fiction journey of Darryl

65

Ne w in pa per b a ck

M EM OI R / O U T D O O R ADV E N TU R E / PACIFIC N OR TH WEST

The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Amid pitched battles over the economy, the environment, and the breaching of dams on the lower Snake River, the salmon that have always quickened these rivers are disappearing. On a warm day in late May, Mike Barenti entered the heart of this conflict when he slid a white-water kayak into the headwaters of central Idaho’s Salmon River and started paddling toward the Pacific Ocean. This account of his two-month, nine-hundred-mile solo journey into the world of the Columbia Basin plunges us into the adventure of navigating these troubled waterways.

Kayaking Alone is a narrative of man and nature, one-onone, but also of man and nature writ large. In the stories of the river guides and rangers, biologists and ranchers, American Indians and dam workers he meets along the way, the rich and complicated life of the river emerges in a striking, often painfully clear panorama. Through his journey, the ecology, history, and politics of Pacific salmon unfold in fascinating detail, and with this firsthand knowledge and experience the reader gains a new and personal sense of the nature that unites and divides us.

Kayaking Alone

Post Register and has taught English and creative writing at

Mike Barenti

various colleges.

December 248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 map $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6518-9 $20.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK ebook available

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Outdoor Lives series

66

Mike Barenti is a writer and journalist who has worked as a

Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho’s Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

reporter for the Yakima Herald-Republic and the Idaho Falls

“This book flows from cover to cover like the rivers traveled within its pages, and the story is never the same for long.

Barenti takes readers on a ride deep into the personality of the West, shedding light on the culture of the region every time he eddies out.”—Paddling Life “The prose is direct and provoking, and the book’s pace moves as smartly as any healthy current—delivering us from landmark to new vista to conclusions with steady force.”—Western American Literature “Mike Barenti’s heartfelt chronicle of the culture and politics of salmon rivers is both a splendid adventure yarn and a provocative inquiry into the American conscience.”—Paul Schullery, author of Searching for Yellowstone

MEMOI R / OUTDOOR ADVENTURE

The Hard Way Home

In Trace of TR

Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt

A Montana Hunter’s Journey

Steve Kahn

Dan Aadland As a student of American history, as a hunter, horseman, and former Marine, and as someone passionate about the West, Dan Aadland had long felt a kinship with Theodore Roosevelt. One day, on a single-footing horse, leveraction rifle under his knee, Aadland set out to become acquainted with TR as only those who shared his experiences could. In Trace of TR documents that quest, inviting readers to ride along and get to know Theodore Roosevelt through the western environment that so profoundly influenced him.

Accompany Aadland as he rides the broad prairies in search of TR’s “prongbuck,” tracks elk through the rugged Big Horn Mountains, and pursues a glimpse of a grizzly in the Absaroka Wilderness. Along the way the author’s campfire musings and reflections on Roosevelt’s writings further deepen and enrich this unique examination of our twenty-sixth president. Aadland’s journey takes readers into TR’s beloved Dakota Territory then and now, offering a kindred spirit’s moving, deftly drawn portrait of both the land and the man across the space of a century.

Dan Aadland is a Montana rancher and retired teacher. He is the author of eight books, including The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter and Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir, both available in Bison Books editions.

January 288 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 29 photographs $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6517-2 $20.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK ebook available

September 224 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 map $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6519-6 $20.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK ebook available Outdoor Lives series

Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America award for “Excellence in Craft”

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide.

When he wasn’t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial fisherman and earned his pilot’s license, pursuits that took him to the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. He lived through some of the most important moments in the state’s history: the 1964 earthquake (the most powerful in U.S. history), the Farewell Burn wildfire, the last king crab season in Kodiak Island waters, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and cleanup, and even the far-reaching effects of the 9/11 attacks.

The essays in The Hard Way Home offer a view of Alaska that is at once introspective and adventurous. Here we find the state’s plants, animals, people, geography, politics, and culture considered from an intimate perspective, yielding hard-earned lessons about conservation, sustainability, and living well. An irrepressible guide, Kahn invites readers to share his experiences and discoveries and to consider questions about a place, and a life, that are disappearing.

Steve Kahn is a lifelong Alaskan and former hunting guide who lives a subsistence-based lifestyle on Lake Clark near Port Alsworth, Alaska. He is a contributor to the anthologies Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North and Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.

Ne w in pa per b a ck

memoir / outdoor adventure

67

Ne w in pa per b a ck

NAT I V E S T U D IE S / H ISTO RY

Drawing on archaeological evidence and often-neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763 explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama and the emergence of the Creek Nation during the colonial era in the American Southeast. In part a study of Creek foreign relations, this book examines the creation and application of the “neutrality” policy—defined here as the Coweta Resolution of 1718—for which the Creeks have long been famous, in an era marked by the imperial struggle for the American South.

Also a study of the culture of internal Creek politics, this work shows the persistence of a “traditional” kinship-based political system in which town and clan affiliation remained supremely important. These traditions, coupled with political intrusions by the region’s three European powers, promoted the spread of Creek factionalism and mitigated the development of a regional Creek Confederacy. But while traditions endured, the struggle to maintain territorial integrity against Britain also promoted political innovation. In this context the territorially defined Creek Nation emerged as a legal concept

The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763 Steven C. Hahn December 352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6293-5 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK Indians of the Southeast series Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, series editors

in the era of the French and Indian War, as imperial policies of an earlier era gave way to the territorial politics that marked the beginning of a new one.

Steven C. Hahn is a professor of history at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove.

“Hahn’s book is good ethnohistory. . . . His study should attract considerable debate among anthropologists.”—Gary Clayton Anderson, American Historical Review “Hahn writes a compelling, page-turner narrative largely

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

organized around a succession of Creek political personalities.”

68

—Robbie Ethridge, Journal of American History “An important refashioning of the confederacy-nation dilemma. . . . The best history writing allows the people making history to speak for themselves, and Hahn’s attentiveness to Creek concerns pays off handsomely.”—Matthew H. Jennings, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

SOC I AL SC I ENC E / WORLD HI STORY

Restoring the Chain of Friendship

Imperial Identities

British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815 Timothy D. Willig

Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria, New Edition Patricia M. E. Lorcin Foreword by Hugh Roberts With a new introduction by the author

“Lorcin’s study of the formulation and manipulation of

also supplants them as the standard work on British-

imperial identities is a masterpiece of the genre.”

Indian relations in this area and era.”—Colin Calloway,

—John Ruedy, Journal of Middle East Studies

American Historical Review

September 336 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 map $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4971-4 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK

September 392 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 photograph, 9 illustrations, 2 maps $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-9893-4 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

During the American RevoImperial Identities is a lution, the British enjoyed groundbreaking book that a unified alliance with addresses identity formatheir Native allies in the tion in colonial Algeria of Great Lakes region of North two predominant ethniciAmerica. By the War of 1812, ties and analyzes French however, that “chain of attitudes in the context friendship” had devolved of nineteenth-century into smaller, more local ideologies. Patricia M. E. alliances. To understand Lorcin explores the prohow and why this pivotal cess through which ethnic shift occurred, Restoring the categories and cultural disChain of Friendship examtinctions were developed ines British and Native relations in the Great Lakes reand used as instruments of social control in colonial gion between the end of the American Revolution and society.

She examines the circumstances that gave rise the end of the War of 1812. to and the influences that shaped the colonial images of Timothy D. Willig traces the developments in British“good” Kabyle and “bad” Arab (usually referred to as the Native interaction and diplomacy in the three regions Kabyle myth) in Algeria. served by the agencies of Fort St. Joseph, Fort Amher In this new edition of Imperial Identities, Lorcin stburg, and Fort George respectively. During the late addresses the related scholarship that has appeared eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Native since the book’s original publication in 1995, examines peoples in each area developed unique relationships postindependence issues relevant to the Arab/Berber with the British. Relations in these regions were afquestion, and discusses the developments in Algeria fected by such factors as the local success of the fur and France connected to Arab/Berber politics, includtrade, Native relations with the United States, geograing the 1980 Berber Spring and the 1992–2002 civil war. phy, the influence of British-Indian agents, intertribal relations, Native acculturation or cultural revitalization, The new edition contains a full and updated bibliography. and constitutional issues of Native sovereignty and Patricia M. E. Lorcin is a professor of history at the legal statuses. Assessing the wide variety of factors University of Minnesota and the author of numerous that influenced relations in each of these areas, Willig books, including Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia, Algedetermines that it was nearly impossible for Britain to ria and France 1800–2000, and France and Its Spaces establish a single Indian policy for its North American of War. Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor borderlands, and it was thus forced to adapt to condiof North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts tions and circumstances particular to each region.

University and the author of Berber Government: The Timothy D. Willig is an assistant professor of history Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria. at Indiana University South Bend.

“A book that not only supplements its predecessors but

Ne w in pa per b a ck

NAT I V E S T U D IE S / H ISTO RY

69

NAT I V E S T U D IE S / W E ST E RN HISTORY

NATI VE STUDI ES / WESTERN HI STORY

Salish Kootenai College Press

Salish Kootenai College Press

“A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms”

Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1888–1893

Peter Ronan

Peter Ronan

Edited by Robert J. Bigart

Edited by Robert J. Bigart

Peter Ronan (1839–93) was Justice To Be Accorded To the Indians the government agent for the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana from Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the 1877 until his death. It was Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1877 – 1887 a period of rapid cultural and economic change for the tribes as hunting and gathering resources declined and the surrounding Robert J. Bigart white population exploded in western Montana. As an ex-newspaperman, Ronan provided reports to the commissioner of Indian Affairs with unusually full and detailed information about Flathead Reservation events during a critical time for the tribes. Ronan was a unique federal Indian Agent in the nineteenth century both because of both the length of his tenure and his ability to work with tribal leaders.

“A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms” includes Ronan’s letters from 1877–87, when the Salish and Kootenai navigated crises that could have destroyed the tribes. In 1877 the tribes worked hard to stay out of the Nez Perce War, after which they then had to avoid conflict with white settlers who could mistake them for hostiles and a government that tried to deprive them of guns and ammunition for hunting and self-defense.

The Bitterroot Valley Salish struggled to preserve their right to live in their traditional homeland. This volume also includes an 1884 photographic tour of the reservation and a biographical sketch of Ronan.

Robert J. Bigart is librarian emeritus at Salish Kootenai College and the editor and author of several books on Salish and Flathead Indian Reservation history.

Justice to Be Accorded to the Indians includes Peter Ronan’s letters during the 1888–93 period covered by this second volume of Ronan’s letters, the Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, tribes navigated growing 1888–1893 economic and legal crises. Tribal farms and cattle herds expanded to make up for declining traditional hunting and Robert J. Bigart gathering resources.

Ronan and Kootenai chief Eneas worked hard to avoid open conflict with white settlers encroaching on the northern boundary of the reservation. Despite repeated provocations, Eneas was able to keep the peace and struggled to get equal justice for Kootenai victims of white criminals. The letters also detailed Ronan’s efforts to relocate the Bonners Ferry Kootenai and Lower Pend d’Oreille Indians on the Flathead Reservation and make off-reservation allotments to those tribal members who chose to remain in Idaho and Washington. This volume includes biographical sketches of Salish chiefs Arlee, Charlo, and Louison; Pend d’Oreille chief Michel; and Kootenai chief Eneas.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1887-1893

edited by

Peter Ronan was agent for the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana between 1877 and his death in 1893. During these years he wrote long and detailed reports back to Washington, D.C., describing events on the reservation. The reports represent his viewpoint, but their detail helps make them a valuable source on Flathead Reservation history during the late nineteenth century. This volume contains the letters covering the 1887-1893 period and a companion volume, “A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms,” covers the years between 1877 and 1887. Most of the letters are printed with editor’s annotations which include references to other historical sources that give background information.

The sixteen years between 1877 and 1893, when Ronan was agent, were a time of trial and crisis for the Pend d’Oreille, Salish, and Kootenai people living on the reservation. They had to keep the peace with the invading white settlers while at the same time undergoing a dramatic economic transformation. Soon after Ronan took charge in 1877 the Nez Perce War broke out and the tribes worked hard to stay out of the conflict. In the last five years of Ronan’s tenure, the Kootenai under Chief Eneas faced repeated aggression from the white settlers living just north of the reservation. The Kootenai were somehow able to avoid open conflict while trying to get justice for Kootenai whose lands were jumped or were victims of white criminals. After the buffalo and other wild game were killed off, the tribes expanded their farms and cattle herds. At the start of the twentieth century the tribes were still economically self-supporting despite the loss of the hunting and gathering resources that had been the foundation of their economy for centuries. Many challenges faced the tribes in the years after 1893, but between 1877 and 1893 potential catastrophes were averted and a base was built from which tribal leaders could work to defend the tribes in the twentieth century. It is an extraordinary story.

SKC Press

SKC Press

70

“A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms”

Justice To Be Accorded To the Indians

Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1877–1887

“A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms”

ed to the Indians, etters are printed o other historical

Ronan was agent, alish, and Kootep the peace with ndergoing a drak charge in 1877 ard to stay out of e Kootenai under te settlers living how able to avoid whose lands were buffalo and other farms and cattle es were still econg and gathering my for centuries.

893, but between d a base was built bes in the twenti-

Justice to Be Accorded To the Indians

Justice To Be Accorded To the Indians

edited by

March 2014 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 16 black and white photographs, index $24.95 paperback • 978-1-934594-11-7 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK

also of interest A Pretty Village Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1880-1889

March 2014 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 26 photographs, map $24.95 paperback • 978-1-934594-10-0 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK

Edited by Robert J. Bigart $19.95s paperback • 978-1-934594-00-1 Zealous in All Virtues Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1890-1894 Edited by Robert J. Bigart $19.95s paperback • 978-1-934594-01-8

recent & recommended Black Elk Speaks The Complete Edition John G. Neihardt With a new introduction by Philip J. Deloria and annotations

by R aymond J. DeMallie $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8391-6

Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman $275.00s hardcover • 978-0-8276-0933-4

Bold They Rise

the jewish publication society

The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972–1986 David Hitt and Heather R. Smith

Wide Open Fairways

$36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2648-7

Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie Midwestern Writers on Food Edited and with an introduction by Peggy Wolff $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3645-5

Grandpa’s Third Drawer Unlocking Holocaust Memories Written and illustrated by Judy Tal Kopelman

A Journey across the Landscapes of Modern Golf Bradley S. Klein $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4037-7

WORLD OF YESTERDAYS Stefan Zweig $24.95 PAPERBACK • 978-0-8032-2661-6

Young Widower A Memoir John W. Evans $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4952-3

$12.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-1221-1 $17.95 hardcover • 978-0-8276-1204-4 the jewish publication society

The Horse Lover A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs H. Alan Day With Lynn Wiese Sneyd $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-5335-3

JON LEWIS Photographs of the California Grape Strike Richard Steven Street $49.95 HARDCOVER • 978-0-8032-3048-4 University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

71

Recent Award-Winners The Allotment Plot

body geographic

Conspiracy of Silence

Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance nicole Tonkovich

barrie jean borich

Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball Chris L amb

$65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7137-1 • 2013 Bancroft History Prize Honor Book from the Denver Public Library

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3985-2 • Finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) • 2013 Foreword Book of the Year finalist in Essays

American Jews and America’s Game Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball L arry Ruttman $34.95 CLOTH • 978-0-8032-6475-5 • 2013 Foreword Book of the Year Finalist (Sports)

Artifacts and Illuminations Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley Edited and with an introduction by Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher

The Life of a Federal Trial Judge Warren K. Urbom • Nebraska Book Award (Nonfiction

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3632-5

Autobiography)

Chiricahua and Janos Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880

Prize

borderl ands and tr anscultur al studies

“At a time when western historians have rediscovered the borderlands to great effect, Chiricahua and Janos presents a valuable new framework for thinking about Spanish-Indian relations in the American Southwest. It is a substantial contribution to the fields of Borderlands and Native American history.”

—K arl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Chiricahua and Janos

“The story this book has to tell will prove important and compelling.

Chiricahua and Janos reflects trends in a burgeoning historiography of the Spanish-Indian borderlands, especially with its scholarly attention to Indian communities as independent political actors in larger narratives of imperial, national, and international expansion and conflict.”—Juliana Barr, author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

isbn 978-0-8032-3766-7

Bly th | Nebr ask a

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Autobiography)

72

Literature) • 2013 Bancroft History Prize Honor Book from the Denver Public Library

Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie Midwestern Writers on Food Edited and with an introduction by Peggy Wolff

(Essays and Anthologies)

• Nebraska Book Award (Nonfiction

Universit y of Nebr ask a Press Lincoln ne 68588-0630 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

Jewish Book Award (Holocaust

• 2013 Foreword Book of the Year Finalist

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4066-7

Lance R. Blyth is the deputy director of the Office of History at U.S. Northern Command and a research associate professor in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.

• 2013 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3645-5

Stories from My Life in Public Television Ron Hull

Jacket image courtesy 123rf.com / Ken Pillon

Epistolophilia Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė Julija Šuk ys

• David J. Weber–William P. Clements

Backstage

Journalism and Mass Communication

$36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3983-8

$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6766-7

• Nebraska Book Award (Anthology)

• 2012 Association for Education in Award (History Division)

Called to Justice

LANCE R. BLYTh

$40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3403-1

$39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1076-9

| Lance R. Bly th

Chiricahua and Janos Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880

B

orderlands violence, so explosive in our time, has deep roots in history.

Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered both within and between communities, to include the Spanish-Mexican settlement of Janos in Nueva Vizcaya, present-day Chihuahua, and the Chiricahua Apaches.

For more than two centuries violence was at the center of the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their communities. Violence created families by turning boys into men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to marriage, then also determined the provisioning and security of these families, with acts of revenge and retaliation governing their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange continued sporadically.

This revisionist work reveals how during the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras both conflict and accommodation constituted these two communities that previous historians have often treated as separate and antagonistic. By showing not only the negative aspects of violence but also its potentially positive outcomes, Chiricahua and Janos helps us to understand violence not only in the southwestern borderlands but in borderland regions generally around the world.

Hatemail

Murder State

Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards Salo Aizenberg $31.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-0949-5

California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 Brendan C. Lindsay

• Finalist in the 2013 National Jewish

$70.00s HARDCOVER • 978-0-8032-2480-3

Book Awards in Visual Arts

In Thought and Action The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam

• 2013 Towson Prize for Literature • President’s Award from the Western Social Sciences Association

Smoky Joe Wood

The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers Edited by Lyle Spatz $26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3992-0 • 2013 Ron Gabriel Award from the Society for American Baseball Research

We Are Here

$26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3764-3

The Biography of a Baseball Legend Gerald C. Wood

• 2013 S. I. Hayakawa Book Prize

$34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4499-3

$19.95 PAPERBACK • 978-0-8032-3012-5

• 2014 Seymour Medal

• Best Book Prize from the Association

• Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History

Standing Firmly by the Flag

Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Ellen C assedy

for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861–1867 James E. Potter

Your Midwest Garden

Essays Joy C astro $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7142-5

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4090-2

$24.95 PAPERBACK • 978-0-8032-4009-4

• Nebraska Book Award (Nonfiction

• 2013 Foreword Book of the Year finalist

Island of Bones

• International Latino Book Award (Most Inspirational Nonfiction Book-English)

History)

An Owner’s Manual Jan Riggenbach

in Home & Garden

• Finalist for the 2013 Pen Center USA Literary Award (Creative Nonfiction)

Little Sinners, and Other Stories Karen Brown $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4342-2 • 2013 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

73

journals American Indian Quarterly Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham, Editor Revitalized and refocused, American Indian Quarterly (aiq) is building on its reputation as a dominant journal in American Indian studies by presenting the best and most thought-provoking scholarship in the field. aiq is committed to publishing work that contributes to the development of American Indian studies as a field and to the sovereignty and continuance of American Indian nations and cultures.

Anthropological Linguistics Douglas R. Parks, Editor Anthropological Linguistics provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the Native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the journal includes articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study.

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Collaborative Anthropologies

74

Charles Menzies, Susan Hyatt, and Karen Quintiliani, Editors Collaborative Anthropologies is a forum for dialogue with a special focus on the collaboration that takes place between and among researchers and communities of informants, consultants, and collaborators. It features essays that are descriptive as well as analytical from all subfields of anthropology and closely related disciplines, together presenting a diversity of perspectives on collaborative research.

French Forum

Great Plains Quarterly

Philippe Met, Editor

Charles A. Braithwaite, Editor

French Forum is a journal of French and Francophone literature and film. It publishes articles in English and French on all periods and genres in both disciplines and welcomes a multiplicity of approaches.

Founded by Virginia and Raymond La Charité, the journal is produced by the French section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Great Plains Quarterly publishes articles for scholars and interested laypeople on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains. The journal, which is published for the Center for Great Plains Studies, is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors.

Frontiers

Great Plains Research

A Journal of Women Studies Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Editors

Gary D. Willson, Editor

For over thirty years Frontiers has explored the diversity of women’s lives as shaped by such factors as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and place. Multicultural and interdisciplinary, Frontiers presents a broad mix of scholarly work, personal essays, and the arts offered in accessible language.

Great Plains Research publishes original research and scholarly reviews of important advances in the natural and social sciences with relevance to and special emphases on environmental, economic, and social issues in the Great Plains. It includes reviews of books and reports on symposia and conferences that included sessions on topics pertaining to the Great Plains.

new

Journal of Austrian Studies

Gettysburg Magazine

Hillary Hope Herzog and Todd Herzog, Editors

James Pula, Editor Established in 1989, Gettysburg Magazine publishes accessible and engaging works of original scholarship concerning the battle and campaign of Gettysburg. Serving a community comprised of both professional academics and independent scholars alike, the magazine showcases a broad array of historical, field, and personal essays, as well as features considering primary documents and first-hand accounts from battle participants, art, and photography of and from the site.

The Journal of Austrian Studies, formerly Modern Austrian Studies, is an interdisciplinary quarterly that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the history and culture of Austria, Austro-Hungary, and the Habsburg territory. It is the flagship publication of the Austrian Studies Association and contains contributions in German and English from the world’s premiere scholars in the field of Austrian studies.

new

Legacy

NINE

Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships

A Journal of American Women Writers Jennifer S. Tuttle, Theresa Strouth Gaul, and Susan Tomlinson, Editors

A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Trey Strecker, Editor

James C. Wadley, Editor The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships is a refereed, interdisciplinary, scholarly inquiry devoted to addressing the epistemological, ontological, and social construction of sexual expression and relationships of persons within the African diaspora. This quarterly journal will be used as a medium to capture the functionality and dysfunctionality of individuals, couples, and families as well as the efficacy in which relationships are negotiated.

Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies

Legacy is the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and is the only journal to focus specifically on American women’s writings from the seventeenth through the midtwentieth century. Each issue covers a wide range of topics, including examinations of the works of individual authors; genre studies; analysis of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexualities in women’s literature; and cultural issues pertinent to women’s lives and literary works.

David Miller and Lucia Aiello, Editors

Native South

The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies is a peer-reviewed biannual with a critical, theoretical, and methodological focus on the relationship between literature and trauma. It aims to foster a broad interrogative dialogue between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism and develop new approaches to the study of trauma in literature and the trauma of literature.

Journal of Sports Media Mary Lou Sheffer, Editor

Native South focuses on the investigation of Southern Indian history with the goals of encouraging further study and exposing the influences of Indian people on the wider South. The journal does not limit itself to the study of the geographic area that was once encompassed by the Confederacy, but expands its view to the areas occupied by the pre- and post-contact descendants of the original inhabitants of the South, wherever they may be.

Nineteenth-Century French Studies Marshall C. Olds, Editor Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field of nineteenth-century French literature and culture. Each issue contains peer-reviewed scholarly articles and an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines.

Nouvelles Études Francophones Stephen Bishop, Editor Nouvelles Études Francophones (nef) is the official refereed journal of the International Council of Francophone Studies/Conseil International d’Études Francophones (ciéf). nef publishes scholarly research in the language, arts, literatures, cultures, and civilizations of Francophone countries and regions throughout the world.

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

The Journal of Sports Media reflects the undeniable influence of sports media on contemporary culture and the growing interest in the field as an area of study and research. The journal features scholarly articles, emphasizing research with practical applications; essays; book reviews; and reports on major conferences and seminars. It also includes articles from industry leaders and sports media figures on topics appealing to a nonacademic audience.

Greg O’Brien, Melanie Benson Taylor, and Robbie Ethridge, Editors

nine studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. The journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.

75

Prairie Schooner

Resilience

Kwame Dawes, Editor

A Journal of the Environmental Humanities Stephanie Foote and Stephanie LeMenager, Editors

Each issue of Prairie Schooner contains an exceptional selection of poetry, fiction, translations, essays, and book reviews, and selections are often anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Essays, and Pushcart Prize collections.

Orders and requests for Prairie Schooner should not be combined with orders for University of Nebraska Press journal titles but should be sent directly to: Prairie Schooner 201 Andrews Hall P.O. Box 880334 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln ne 68588-0334 402-472-0911 (phone)

Qui Parle

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Critical Humanities and Social Sciences Simon Porzak and Emily O’Rourke, Editors

76

Qui Parle publishes provocative interdisciplinary articles covering a range of outstanding theoretical and critical work in the humanities.

The journal is dedicated to expanding the dialogues that take place between disciplines and which challenge conventional understandings of reading and scholarship in academia.

Resilience is a digital, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars from across humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the humanities contribute to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources.

Storyworlds A Journal of Narrative Studies Andreea Deciu Ritivoi and David R. Shumway, Editors Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative theory. It features research on storytelling practices across a variety of media, including face-to-face interaction, literary writing, film and television, virtual environments, historiography, opera, journalism, graphic novels, plays, and photography, studied from perspectives developed in a wide range of fields.

Studies in American Indian Literatures Chadwick Allen, Editor Studies in American Indian Literatures (sail) is the only journal in the United States focusing exclusively on American Indian literatures. Broadly defining “literatures” to include all written, spoken, and visual texts created by Native peoples, the journal is on the cutting edge of activity in the field. sail is a journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.

Studies in American Naturalism Keith Newlin and Stephen C. Brennan, Editors Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. It presents contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformations.

Studies in American Naturalism is published for the International Theodore Dreiser Society.

symplokeˉ A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Editor symplokē is a comparative theory and literature journal, committed to interdisciplinary studies, intellectual pluralism, and open discussion.

The journal takes its name from the Greek word “symploke,” which can mean interweaving, interlacing, connection, and struggle. Focusing on the interrelationship of philosophy, literature, cultural criticism, and intellectual history, symplokē is a forum for scholars from a variety of disciplines to exchange ideas in innovative ways.

Theoretical & Applied Ethics

Women and Music

Chris Herrera, Editor

A Journal of Gender and Culture Ellie M. Hisama, Editor

Theoretical & Applied Ethics is a journal of philosophical ethics with an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship in ethics and work that links ethics with other areas of philosophy such as metaphysics or epistemology. Its articles represent current trends in fields such as medical ethics, business ethics, ethical theory, and meta-ethics, as well as philosophy of law, science, sport, and business.

Women and Music is an annual journal of scholarship about women, music, and culture. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the refereed journal seeks to further the understanding of the relationships among gender, music, and culture, with special attention being given to the concerns of women.

Women in German Yearbook new

The Undecidable Unconscious A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis Eric W. Anders and Alan Bass, Editors Deconstruction—the analysis and transformation of metaphysics—intersects with psychoanalysis. Both are engaged with thinking beyond consciousness. This new journal is a forum for those working at the borders of these two disciplines.

Its name, The Undecidable Unconscious, refers to the broadest aspect of psychoanalysis—the theory of unconscious processes—and to the irreducible oscillation and chance of nonmetaphysical processes.

Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Editors Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication presenting a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literature, culture, and language, including pedagogy. Reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies, each issue contains critical inquiries employing gender and other analytical categories to examine the work, history, life, literature, and arts of the German-speaking world.

new

Western American Literature Published by the Western Literature Association in partnership with unp, Western American Literature is the leading journal in western American literary studies. The journal focuses broadly on western culture, each issue including reproductions of western images—paintings, photography, film stills, botanical and survey drawings, maps, murals— to offer a cultural context for the essays.

Unless otherwise indicated, journal orders should be sent to: University of Nebraska Press 1111 Lincoln Mall Lincoln ne 68588-0630 402-472-8536 Payment must accompany order.

Make checks payable to University of Nebraska Press.

You may also order online at nebraskapress.unl.edu

The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in sabr member research on baseball.

History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other disciplines are represented to expand our knowledge of baseball as it is, was, and could be played.

Published twice a year.

The National Pastime A Review of Baseball History This is the annual review of baseball historical research and regional topics published by the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr). Each year the publication focuses on the history of baseball in a different region or city, following the annual sabr convention from one major league territory to another. Recent issues have included Philadelphia, Southern California, and Minnesota.

Upcoming in 2014: Houston; in 2015: Chicago.

Orders and requests for the National Pastime and the Baseball Research Journal should not be combined with orders for University of Nebraska Press journal titles but should be sent directly to: University of Nebraska Press c/o Longleaf Services, Inc. 116 S Boundary Street Chapel Hill nc 27514-3808 800-848-6224 (phone)

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Tom Lynch, Editor

The Baseball Research Journal

77

Support the Press Help the University of Nebraska Press continue its vital program of scholarly and regional book publishing by becoming a Friend of the Press. To join, visit nebraskapress.unl.edu or contact Erika Kuebler Rippeteau, grants and development specialist, at 402-472-1660 or erippeteau1@unl.edu. To find out how you can help support a particular book or series, contact Donna Shear, Press director, at 402-472-2861 or dshear2@unl.edu.

To make a bequest naming the Press as the beneficiary, please contact the University of Nebraska Foundation at 800-432-3216 or visit the foundation’s website at nufoundation.org.

A

Aadland, Dan 67 Aiello, Lucia 75 Albarrán, Elena Jackson 54 Allen, Chadwick 76 Allmendinger, Blake 21 American Indian Quarterly 74 America’s U-Boats 12 Ametsbichler, Elizabeth 77 Anders, Eric W. 77 Andersen, Margaret Cook 55 Anderson, Alison 26 Anthropological Linguistics 74 Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders 50 Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America 56 Author Under Sail 57

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

B

78

Ball, David 27 Ball, Nicole 27 Barenti, Mike 66 Barnes, Leslie 60 Bartlett, A. Jennie 59 The Baseball Research Journal 77 Bass, Alan 77 Before the West Was West 53 Bennett, Scott H. 56 Beyond the Fruited Plain 58 Bigart, Robert J. 70 Bishop, Stephen 75 Bobin, Christian 26 Bootleggers and Borders 10 Braithwaite, Charles A. 74 Brennan, Stephen C. 76 Burnham, Philip 5

C

Dawnland Voices 44 Di Leo, Jeffrey R. 76 Dolan, Kathryn Cornell 58 Downwind 4 Dubbs, Chris 12

E

Eisenfeld, Sue 23 Elder Northfield’s Home 59 Ellenson, David 42 Elman, R. Amy 63 Empress San Francisco 6 En Recuerdo de 8 Ethridge, Robbie 75 The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial 63 The Event 60 Ezell, Scott 22

F

A Far Corner 22 Fluent Selves 50 Foote, Stephanie 76 Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education 20 Fox, Sarah Alisabeth 4 Freeze, Eric 28 French Forum 74 Frontiers 74 Frozen in Time 35 Fu-go 13

G

The Game before the Money 38 Gaul, Theresa Strouth 75 Gautier, Amina 24 A Generation Removed 1 Gettysburg Magazine 74 Glancy, Diane 20 Gleach, Frederic W. 50 Gómez, Miguel I. 18 Graham, Laura R. 48 “A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms”

Cashen, J. Frank 36 Catholic Borderlands 49 Cobb-Greetham, Amanda J. 74 Coen, Ross 13 Collaborative Anthropologies 74 The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880 62 Course, Magnus 50

Great Plains Quarterly 74 Great Plains Research 74 Growing Local 18

D

H

Darnell, Regna 50 Davis, Rebecca Harding 59 Dawes, Kwame 76

70

Hahn, Steven C. 68 Hamilton, Amy T. 53 Hand, Michael S. 18

The Hard Way Home 67 Hemingway on a Bike 28 Herrera, Chris 77 Herzog, Hillary Hope 74 Herzog, Todd 74 Hillard, Tom J. 53 Hisama, Ellie M. 77 History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition 52 Howlett, Charles F. 56 Hyatt, Susan 74

I

Imperial Identities 69 In Food We Trust 19 In Reach 29 Intercepted 65 In Trace of TR 67 The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763 68 Izenberg, Jerry 40

J

Jacobs, Margaret D. 1 James, Henry 62 Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice 42 Jewish Publication Society 42, 43 Joern, Pamela Carter 29 Johnsgard, Paul A. 16 Jordan, Bruce F. 8 Journal of Austrian Studies 74 Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 75 Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies

75

Journal of Sports Media 75 Justice to Be Accorded To the Indians 70

K

Kahn, Steve 67 Kayaking Alone 66 King, Robert P. 18 King of Spades, Second Edition 64 Kooser, Ted 14

L

The Lady in White 26 Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete 77 Latorre, Guisela 74 A Law Unto Herself 59 Legacy 75 LeMenager, Stephanie 76 Lorcin, Patricia M. E. 69

The Lost Matriarch 43 Lynch, Tom 77

M

Manfred, Frederick 64 Mares, Tony 8 Markowitz, Fran 63 Markwyn, Abigail M. 6 Martínez, Anne M. 49 Mauvignier, Laurent 27 McKnight, Michael 65 The Melon Capital of the World 21 Menzies, Charles 74 Met, Philippe 74 Michael, Jackson 38 Mihas, Elena 51 Miller, David 75 Moore, Stephen 10 Montag, John J. 52 Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico 54

N

The Naked Mountaineer 31 Native South 75 The National Pastime 77 Naugle, Ronald C. 52 Newlin, Keith 76 Newmark, Julianne 46 NINE 75 Nineteenth-Century French Studies 75 Nouvelles Études Francophones 75 Now We Will Be Happy 24

O

Oakdale, Suzanne 50 O’Brien, Dan 2 O’Brien, Greg 75 Olds, Marshall C. 75 Olson, James C. 52 O’Rourke, Emily 76

P

Q

Quintiliani, Karen 74 Qui Parle 76

R

Rabow, Jerry 43 Raider, Adam 35 Regeneration through Empire 55 Reisler, Jim 32 Reliquaria 25

S

Salish Kootenai College Press 70 Schuler, Friedrich E. 54 Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie 16 Seen and Heard in Mexico 54 Senier, Siobhan 44 Sharot, Stephen 63 Sheffer, Mary Lou 75 Shenandoah 23 Shokeid, Moshe 63 Shumway, David R. 76 Sieberson, Steve 31 Sky Loom 47 Smith, Michael G. 30 Song of Dewey Beard 5 Stavreva, Kirilka 61 Stern, David J. 40 Storyworlds 76 Strecker, Trey 75 Studies in American Indian Literatures 76 Studies in American Naturalism 76 Swann, Brian 47 symplokeˉ 76

T

Taylor, Melanie Benson 75 Theoretical & Applied Ethics 77 Thomas, Courtney I. P. 19 Tomlinson, Susan 75 Tonkovich, Nicole 59 Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel 63 Tuttle, Jennifer S. 75

U

Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual 51 The Undecidable Unconscious 77

V

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature 60 Villanueva, R. A. 25

W

Wadley, James C. 75 Walker, Pierre A. 62 Walk of Ages 32 Weingrod, Alex 63 Western American Literature 77 The Wheeling Year 14

subject guide Agriculture & Food Studies 18–19, 58 Anthropology 22, 48–51, 63 Art/Photography 8 Biography 5, 40, 57, 65 Ethnic Studies 46 Fiction 24, 26–27, 29, 59, 64 French/France 26–27, 55, 60 Great Plains 2, 16, 21, 52 History American 4–6, 10, 19–20, 23, 32, 34, 38, 48–50, 52, 56, 58–59, 68–69 Military History 12–13, 56 Western 4, 6, 10, 52, 70 World History 1, 30, 53, 55, 61, 69 Jewish Studies 42, 43, 63 Latin American Studies 8, 50–51, 54 Literary Criticism 46, 53, 58, 60–62 Literary Nonfiction 14, 28 Literature 14, 26, 47, 42, 44, 57, 59, 62, 64 Memoir/Autobiography 2, 21–22, 28, 31, 36, 66–67 Native Studies 1, 5, 20, 22, 44–51, 68–70 Natural History 16, 67 Nebraska 1, 14–16, 29, 52 Outdoor Adventure 31–32, 66–67 Pacific Northwest 10, 66–67 Poetry 14, 25 Religion 42–43, 49 Social Science 21, 19, 56, 63, 69 Sports 31–40, 65 Sustainability/ Environmental Studies 2, 4, 18 Travel 23, 31–32 Women’s Studies 43, 59, 61

Wild Idea 2 Williams, Jay 57 Willig, Timothy D. 69 Willson, Gary D. 74 Winning in Both Leagues 36 Women and Music 77 Women in German Yearbook 77 Words Like Daggers 61 The Wound 27 Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun 74

Z

Zacharias, Greg W. 62

University of Nebraska Press 800-848-6224

Parks, Douglas R. 74 Penny, H. Glenn 48 Pérez, Gregorio Santos 51 Perfectly Awful 34 Performing Indigeneity 48 The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature 46 Porzak, Simon 76 Prairie Schooner 76 Pula, James 74

Renfroe, Alicia Mischa 59 Resilience 76 Restoring the Chain of Friendship 69 Ritivoi, Andreea 76 Rockets and Revolution 30 Rodríguez, Delia Rosas 51 Ronald C. Naugle 52 Ronan, Peter 70 Rosen, Charley 34 Rowner, Ilai 60 Rozelle 40

79

order form orders & customer service University of Nebraska Press c/o Longleaf Services, Inc. 116 S Boundary Street Chapel Hill nc 27514-3808

name

phone

fax

email online

city

800-848-6224 919-966-7449 800-272-6817 919-962-2704 customerservice@longleafservices.org catalog nebraskapress.unl.edu bisonbooks.com

address

State

zip

[ ] check/money order enclosed [ ] Discover

[ ] MasterCard

[ ] Visa

[ ] American Express

Account # Signature

cvv# Expiration Date

connect with us Qty neb r a s k a p r e s s . t y p e pa d . com

ne b r a s k a p r e s s . u n l . edu

sales & marketing information email

Author/Title

Price

mpress@unl.edu

subsidiary rights

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

McIntosh and Otis, Inc. 353 Lexington Avenue New York ny 10016 phone 212-687-7400 fax 212-687-6894 email subrights@mcintoshandotis.com

80

Libraries and institutions with established accounts may be billed or may order through a wholesaler.

Direct orders must be prepaid. Discover, MasterCard, Visa, and American Express are accepted. For domestic orders please add a shipping charge of $6.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. For international orders please add $10.00 for the first book and $4.50 for each additional book. Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania residents, please add sales tax according to your state and local rate. Canadian residents, please add the applicable gst (5%) or hst (12-15%) rates.

Publication dates of forthcoming titles are identified, and books will be shipped when available.

All prices subject to change without notice.

returns

Permission to return overstock is not required provided books are returned within 18 months of sale. Books must be clean, undamaged, and saleable copies of titles currently in print as listed on our website. Full credit allowed if customer supplies copy of original invoice or correct invoice number; otherwise maximum discount applies.

Please send books prepaid and carefully packed via traceable method to:

Sign up online at nebraskapress.unl.edu to receive news and special offers from the University of Nebraska Press. booksellers

s—short discount Discounts are published in the aba Book­buyers Handbook or can be obtained from your sales representative or the sales coordinator, University of Nebraska Press.

Availability Of Ebooks

University of Nebraska Press ebooks may be obtained from most ebook vendors.

REVIEW COPY POLICY

Please send review copy requests via email to mpress@unl.edu.

TEXT ADOPTION AND EXAMINATION COPY POLICY

Educators who wish to consider UNP books for course adoption may request examination copies. Please visit our website and select the "Booksellers/Educators" tab for a request form and our current policy.

Longleaf Services–Returns c/o Maple Press Company Lebanon Distribution Center 704 Legionaire Drive Fredericksburg pa 17026 fw14

Ordering Information

The University of Nebraska Press participates in the Cataloging-in-Publication Program of the U.S. Library of Congress. The paper in all new University of Nebraska Press books meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.

University of Nebraska Press c/o Longleaf Services, Inc. 116 S Boundary Street Chapel Hill nc 27514-3808

All prices subject to change without notice. Sterling prices are indicative and subject to change without notice depending on exchange rates; the University of Nebraska Press works with our European distributor, Combined Academic Publishers, to keep international prices as close to dollar prices as possible.

phone 800-848-6224 or 919-966-7449 fax 800-272-6817 or 919-962-2704 email customerservice@longleafservices.org The University of Nebraska Press belongs to the Association of American University online catalog Presses. Visit the aaup website at aaupnet.org.

nebraskapress.unl.edu

bisonbooks.com This catalog is printed with soy ink on recycled paper.

International Sales Representation

Domestic Sales Representation midwest (ia, il, in, ks, ky, mi, mn, mo, nd, oh, wi, pittsburgh & western pa, sd except rapid city area)

west

Trim Associates

northern california Bob Rosenberg 2318 32nd Avenue San Francisco, ca 94116 phone & fax: 415-564-1248 bob@bobrosenberggroup.com

Gary Trim, Steven Trim 2404 Payne Street Evanston il 60201 phone: 773-871-1249 • fax: 888-334-6986 garytrim@msn.com Martin Granfield 9433 73rd Street Kenosha wi 53142-7678 phone & fax: 262-942-1153 mxgranfield@gmail.com Carole Timkovich 10727 S California Avenue Chicago il 60655 phone & fax: 773-239-4295 ctimkovich@msn.com nebraska and the rapid city, south dakota, area Dick Kohl po box 104 Grand Island ne 68802 phone: 308-382-5815 • fax: 308-384-3758 dkohl@cccusa.net new england (ct, ma, me, nh, ri, vt) and midatlantic (ny, nj, eastern pa, de, md, dc) UMG Publishers Representatives David K. Brown 675 Hudson Street, #4 n New York ny 10014 phone: 212-924-2520 • fax: 212-924-2505 davkeibro@me.com Jay Bruff 1404 S 13th Street Philadelphia pa 19147 phone & fax: 215-389-0995 jaybruff@earthlink.net

Wilcher Associates

ak, wa, or, id, mt George Carroll 4616 25th Ave ne pmb 597 Seattle wa 98105 phone: 425-922-1045 • fax: 425-671-0362 geocarroll@earthlink.net az, nv, southern california Tom McCorkell 26652 Merienda #7 Laguna Hills ca 92656 phone: 949-362-0597 • fax: 949-643-2330 tmccork@sbcglobal.net co, ut, wy, nm Jim Sena 2838 Shadowglen Drive Colorado Springs co 80918 phone: 719-210-5222 • fax: 719-434-9941 sena.wilcher@gmail.com ar, la, ok, tx Bill McClung & Associates Bill McClung & Terri McClung For U.S. Postal Service only 20540 State Hwy 46w Suite 115 Spring Branch tx 78070 phone: 214-505-1501 • fax: 888-311-8932 bmcclung@ix.netcom.com tmcclung@ix.netcom.com south (al, fl, ga, ms, nc, sc, tn, va) Roger Sauls, Book Traveler 1289 N Fordham Boulevard, Box 193 Chapel Hill nc 27514 phone: 919-490-5656 • fax: 919-490-0927 roger_165@msn.com

Prices and terms of sale vary outside the U.S. canada Codasat Canada 1153-56 Street po box 19150 - South Tsawwassen Delta bc v4l 2p8 Canada phone: 604-228-9952 info@codasat.com Orders and Returns c/o University of Toronto Distribution phone: 1-800-565-9523 • fax: 1-800-221-9985 europe, middle east, and africa Combined Academic Publishers Ltd. online: www.combinedacademic.co.uk e-mail: orders@combinedacademic.co.uk phone: 44-1-235-465500 Nicholas Esson Windsor House, Cornwall Road Harrogate North Yorkshire, HG1 2PW United Kingdom phone: 44-1-494-581601 fax: 44-1-494-581602 nickesson@combinedacademic.co.uk asia, the pacific, and new zealand Eurospan Group 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU United Kingdom phone: +44 (0) 1767 604972 fax: +44 (0) 1767 601640 eurospan@turpin-distribution.com eurospanbookstore.com Individual Orders eurospanbookstore.com/nebraska Individuals may also order using the contact details above.

All Others

Order directly from the publisher

University of Nebraska Press publishers of Bison Books University of Nebraska–Lincoln 1111 Lincoln Mall, Suite 400 PO Box 880630 Lincoln NE 68588-0630 ®

J. Frank Cashen foreword by

billy beane

University of Nebraska Press nebraskapress.unl.edu

Winning

4

in Both Leagues Reflections fRom baseball’s fRont office

connect with us

nebraskapress . typepad . com

nebraskapress . unl . edu